Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch

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Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch

From:	Stefan Monnier
Subject:	Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch
Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:07:35 -0400
User-agent:	Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> How likely is it to see a floating-point number with 4 low-order bits
> of mantissa zero?

For floating point values read from Elisp source code, the probability
is not bad at all.  OTOH for code performing any non-trivial
calculation, of course, the probably should hover around 1/2^4, so
pretty low.


        Stefan

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