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Re: bigger integers
From: |
Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: bigger integers |
Date: |
03 Sep 2004 23:29:59 +0000 |
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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?
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never
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neither do we.
- bigger integers, Joe Corneli, 2004/09/02
- Re: bigger integers, Kevin Rodgers, 2004/09/02
- Re: bigger integers, Pascal Bourguignon, 2004/09/02
- Re: bigger integers, Phillip Lord, 2004/09/03
- Re: bigger integers, Joe Corneli, 2004/09/03
- Re: bigger integers,
Pascal Bourguignon <=
- Re: bigger integers, Alan Mackenzie, 2004/09/04
- Re: bigger integers, Miles Bader, 2004/09/05
- Re: bigger integers, Kevin Rodgers, 2004/09/07
- Re: bigger integers, giacomo boffi, 2004/09/17