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1 ;;; float-sup.el --- detect absence of floating-point support in Emacs runtime
3 ;; Maintainer: FSF
4 ;; Last-Modified: 16 Mar 1992
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24 ;;; Code:
26 ;; Provide a meaningful error message if we are running on
27 ;; bare (non-float) emacs.
28 ;; Can't test for 'floatp since that may be defined by float-imitation
29 ;; packages like float.el in this very directory.
31 (if (fboundp 'atan)
32 nil
33 (error "Floating point was disabled at compile time"))
35 ;; provide an easy hook to tell if we are running with floats or not.
36 ;; define pi and e via math-lib calls. (much less prone to killer typos.)
37 (defconst pi (* 4 (atan 1)) "The value of Pi (3.1415926...)")
38 (defconst e (exp 1) "The value of e (2.7182818...)")
40 ;; Careful when editing this file ... typos here will be hard to spot.
41 ;; (defconst pi 3.14159265358979323846264338327
42 ;; "The value of Pi (3.14159265358979323846264338327...)")
44 (defconst degrees-to-radians (/ pi 180.0)
45 "Degrees to radian conversion constant")
46 (defconst radians-to-degrees (/ 180.0 pi)
47 "Radian to degree conversion constant")
49 ;; these expand to a single multiply by a float when byte compiled
51 (defmacro degrees-to-radians (x)
52 "Convert ARG from degrees to radians."
53 (list '* (/ pi 180.0) x))
54 (defmacro radians-to-degrees (x)
55 "Convert ARG from radians to degrees."
56 (list '* (/ 180.0 pi) x))
58 (provide 'lisp-float-type)
60 ;;; float-sup.el ends here