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authorEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2003-11-02 06:29:59 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2003-11-02 06:29:59 +0000
commitad800164c88de7d29471d1fac5035c23ad82245d (patch)
treeb7c3e1c3a24a2a214d0c81249b0381415fe07f8e /lispref/numbers.texi
parent64d4923e0668305cf46eb881f8af4cc73427e8b0 (diff)
Replace @sc{foo} with @acronym{FOO}.
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diff --git a/lispref/numbers.texi b/lispref/numbers.texi
index c004580d86..fbbac56963 100644
--- a/lispref/numbers.texi
+++ b/lispref/numbers.texi
@@ -163,12 +163,12 @@ example, @samp{1500.0}, @samp{15e2}, @samp{15.0e2}, @samp{1.5e3}, and
value is 1500. They are all equivalent. You can also use a minus sign
to write negative floating point numbers, as in @samp{-1.0}.
-@cindex IEEE floating point
+@cindex @acronym{IEEE} floating point
@cindex positive infinity
@cindex negative infinity
@cindex infinity
@cindex NaN
- Most modern computers support the IEEE floating point standard, which
+ Most modern computers support the @acronym{IEEE} floating point standard, which
provides for positive infinity and negative infinity as floating point
values. It also provides for a class of values called NaN or
``not-a-number''; numerical functions return such values in cases where
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ these special floating point values:
@end table
In addition, the value @code{-0.0} is distinguishable from ordinary
-zero in IEEE floating point (although @code{equal} and @code{=} consider
+zero in @acronym{IEEE} floating point (although @code{equal} and @code{=} consider
them equal values).
You can use @code{logb} to extract the binary exponent of a floating
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ machines round in the standard fashion.
@cindex @code{arith-error} in division
If you divide an integer by 0, an @code{arith-error} error is signaled.
(@xref{Errors}.) Floating point division by zero returns either
-infinity or a NaN if your machine supports IEEE floating point;
+infinity or a NaN if your machine supports @acronym{IEEE} floating point;
otherwise, it signals an @code{arith-error} error.
@example
@@ -1166,7 +1166,7 @@ repeatability is helpful for debugging.
If you want random numbers that don't always come out the same, execute
@code{(random t)}. This chooses a new seed based on the current time of
-day and on Emacs's process @sc{id} number.
+day and on Emacs's process @acronym{ID} number.
@defun random &optional limit
This function returns a pseudo-random integer. Repeated calls return a
@@ -1176,7 +1176,7 @@ If @var{limit} is a positive integer, the value is chosen to be
nonnegative and less than @var{limit}.
If @var{limit} is @code{t}, it means to choose a new seed based on the
-current time of day and on Emacs's process @sc{id} number.
+current time of day and on Emacs's process @acronym{ID} number.
@c "Emacs'" is incorrect usage!
On some machines, any integer representable in Lisp may be the result