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author | Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> | 2003-11-02 06:29:59 +0000 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> | 2003-11-02 06:29:59 +0000 |
commit | ad800164c88de7d29471d1fac5035c23ad82245d (patch) | |
tree | b7c3e1c3a24a2a214d0c81249b0381415fe07f8e /lispref/numbers.texi | |
parent | 64d4923e0668305cf46eb881f8af4cc73427e8b0 (diff) |
Replace @sc{foo} with @acronym{FOO}.
Diffstat (limited to 'lispref/numbers.texi')
-rw-r--r-- | lispref/numbers.texi | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
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 |