Re: Adding a generic mathematical library

[Emanuel Berg]

Kepa wrote:

>> "We should ask the community what tools they would like to
>> use, whether combinatorics, random numbers (Gaussian,
>> Bernoulli, Binomial), ...
>>
>> May I suggest "Units and Conversions". "Symbolic
>> Simplification" could also be a candidate."
>
> Units are a differentiating element. I have found very few
> languages that use units and I consider myself lucky to have
> calc. Calc seems to have bugs when working with units
> though:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2024-02/msg00144.html
>
> The embedded mode is also amazing: being able to write text,
> mixed with mathematical operations, variables and units.

Calc was brought into the discussion as a way of opposing the
idea of a library. To say, we don't need it, because we
already have it.

Calc is doing it like it is done everywhere else in Emacs IINM.

This way of doing things isn't good, to me it is pretty much
_the opposite_ to having libraries. But it isn't calc's fault
that they have adapted to this policy/model/reality, I mean
what else to do?

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