[geeks] vi vs. emacs - rational discussion

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 10:13:45PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> 
> > :!print $((24234*34234))
> > 829626756
> >
> > something wrong with your elisp math?	[;^>]
> 
> *scratches head*
> 
> Hmm.  GNU Emacs must have some stupid word-sized arithmetic limitation
> because it comes out right in Dr. Scheme.  Egg on my face for not
> checking the computer's arithmetic, though.

You needed to make it use floating point in elisp.

(* 24234 34234.0)
829626756.0