Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 08:23:33 -0700
> 
> Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth wrote:
> > One approach would be to implement a minimal subset of functions
> > exposed in Emacs Lisp that would allow one to recreate the following
> > functions that are defined in calc.el :
> 
> Surely we should just add bignum support to existing functions +, -, etc. 

Exactly my thoughts.

> > With respect to floating points, though, things get a little hairy. 
> 
> This should be a separate task. Bignums alone are quite a large-enough 
> project. 
> I'm not even sure we should do rationals.

Right.