Re: Calculator: no exponent, full number ?

[Joe_Trivers]

> From: Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
> Sent: 6 June, 2019 1:11 PM

>tomas wrote:
>> Newer Emacsen support bignums:
. . .
>> That said, calc itself supports bignums
>> since long.

>OK, but how could it, if Emacs didn't?

By implementing its own number representations and arithmetic library in Elisp.
>From nearly 30 years ago.
See calc-arith.el by David Gillespie. A _very_ impressive piece of work.
I don't understand it at all.

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