bug#16999: calc crashes when computation limit is increased

[Mattias Engdegård]

10 sep. 2020 kl. 18.02 skrev Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>:

> Let me attempt a patch, and please forgive my reopening the bug.

Here is that patch. Sadly mail to Florian Beck's address bounced but perhaps 
someone else will see the proposal and subject it to scrutiny. In short:

1. A sign mistake in the original code caused the infinite recursion. Fixed.
2. Some parts of the computation used tail recursion, which limited their 
applicability in elisp. Changed to use an imperative loop (alas).
3. The binomial coefficients have now been extended for all integral arguments, 
using definitions from [1]; see also [2] and [3].

[1] M. J. Kronenburg; The Binomial Coefficient for Negative Arguments; 
https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3689
[2] D. Loeb, E. Damiani and O. D’Antona; Getting Results with Negative 
Thinking; https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9502214
[3] David Fowler; The Binomial Coefficient Function; The American Mathematical 
Monthly, Vol. 103, No. 1 (Jan., 1996), pp. 1-17

0001-Calc-fix-binomial-coefficients-for-negative-argument.patch
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