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| From: | Van L |
| Subject: | Re: Calculator: no exponent, full number ? |
| Date: | Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:23:54 +1000 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (darwin) |
Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> Van L wrote:
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>> Emacs-27's calc does bignum.
>
> Is there a paleo-techno-scientific definition
> of "bignum" or is it just short for
> a big numbers?
It is a shorthand or contraction or
telescope-collapsing-fold like calc is to calculation or
calculator, saving time and space.
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