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In article <56100@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, summers@acsu.buffalo.edu (Michael Summers) writes:
>
>Is there a C or EL package that will give emacs lisp the capability to
>manipulate other numbers besides integers?

Once again, the LCD has the answer:

float             86-12-02
     Bill Rosenblatt, <18.55 dist>
     Floating point arithmetic package.
float-sort-pat    90-06-25
     Skip Montanaro, <montnaro@mosse.crd.ge.com>
     tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/misc/float-sort.patch.Z
     Sorting floating point fields
flonums           87-10-27
     W. Rupprecht, <wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu>
     mgm.mit.edu:/pub/WOLFGANG/float-emacs.diff
     True floating point data type for Lisp.
calc (1.03)       90-06-26
     Dave Gillespie, <daveg@csvax.caltech.edu>
     tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages/calc-1.03.tar.Z
     Advanced Desk Calculator for Emacs

The first is part of the standard GNU Emacs distribution.  The flonums
package seems to add *real* floating point numbers to ELisp, if you'll
excuse the pun.  Calc is more of an interactive tool; I don't know if
it can be used programatically, though it *is* programmable.

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