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Re: bigger integers


From: Pascal Bourguignon
Subject: Re: bigger integers
Date: 03 Sep 2004 23:29:59 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3

Joe Corneli <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> writes:

>    After all, emacs lisp is designed to count characters in a file,
>    not to compute factorials.
> 
>  "Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time
>  display editor."
> 
> If I can't extend or customize it to compute 12! then there seems to
> be something missing.  Kevin's factorial works though so I guess
> that's good enough for me... oh wait a second now it stopped working.

Oh yes, it IS extensible and customizable.
The question is: is it worth the effort to extend and customize it?

And what does 12! have to do with editing files anyway?

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