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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/emacs-lisp/float.el')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/float.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/float.el index d01ba1e291d..85d9b4db78c 100644 --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/float.el +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/float.el @@ -1,13 +1,16 @@ ;;; float.el --- floating point arithmetic package. +;; Author: Bill Rosenblatt +;; Maintainer: FSF +;; Last-Modified: 16 Mar 1992 + ;; Copyright (C) 1986 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -;; Author Bill Rosenblatt ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) +;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, @@ -19,6 +22,8 @@ ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to ;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. +;;; Commentary: + ;; Floating point numbers are represented by dot-pairs (mant . exp) ;; where mant is the 24-bit signed integral mantissa and exp is the ;; base 2 exponent. @@ -46,6 +51,8 @@ ;; June 20, 1986 ;; +;;; Code: + ;; fundamental implementation constants (defconst exp-base 2 "Base of exponent in this floating point representation.") |