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bug#9411: 23.2; Improper integer conversion (rounding?) on data entry in


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: bug#9411: 23.2; Improper integer conversion (rounding?) on data entry in Calc
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:14:44 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux)

Keith Browne <tuxedo@htq.org> writes:

> M-x calc [RETURN]
> 90000000000000010 [RETURN]
> (that's 9, followed by fourteen 0s, followed by 10)
>
> - Observe that 90000000000000016 appears on the stack, not
> 90000000000000010.

That is an inaccuracy in string-to-number that should be fixed in Emacs
24.  You can work around it by reducing math-bignum-digit-length.

Andreas.

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