From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47863 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus 5.9.0 - Arithmetic error Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:49:05 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <84d6otk0a6.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038251914 10203 80.91.224.249 (25 Nov 2002 19:18:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:18:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18GOkb-0002eR-00 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:18:33 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18GOkf-0000kw-00; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:18:37 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:19:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@[209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA19562 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:19:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 22107 invoked by alias); 25 Nov 2002 19:17:25 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 22101 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2002 19:17:24 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 25 Nov 2002 19:17:24 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18GOnC-0006zb-00 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:21:14 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50877337.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1038252074 26882 80.135.115.55 (25 Nov 2002 19:21:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Nov 2002 19:21:14 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4SFyNUxUCqUmAZwNKnIydgJbOZ4= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47863 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47863 pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes: > command `M P a' yields: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (range-error "truncate" 40000000000001.0) Whee. I think it will be very difficult to change Gnus to use strings as article numbers instead of numbers. Maybe it's easier to implement bignums in Emacs Lisp. A workaround for your problem, of course, is to say something like `9 9 9 9 #'. kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)