[debbugs-tracker] bug#15626: closed (calc prime test fails for numbers > 8 million)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #15626,
regarding calc prime test fails for numbers > 8 million
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> calc prime test fails for numbers > 8 million
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> Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:32:15 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Package: emacs
> Version: 24.3
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> On x86_64 GNU/Linux:
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> emacs -Q -f calc
> 8000000 RET
> k p
>   -> Wrong type argument: listp, 8000000
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> Any number >= 8000000 (but < math-small-integer-size) fails in this way.
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> The problem is the
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>   (% (nth 1 n) 2) 0)
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> of math-prime-test, which still expects numbers larger than 8000000 to
> be in (bigpos ... ) list format, but the limit is much greater than that
> these days.
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> The calc manual is likewise outdated:
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>   19.5.7.1 Data Type Formats
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>   Large integers are stored as lists of the form `(bigpos D0 D1 D2 ...)'
>   for positive integers 1000000 or more,
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> (First reported at
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679753 )
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> Re: bug#15626: calc prime test fails for numbers > 8 million
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> Date: 
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> Wed, 16 Oct 2013 22:39:41 -0500
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)
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> > On x86_64 GNU/Linux:
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> > emacs -Q -f calc
> > 8000000 RET
> > k p
> >   -> Wrong type argument: listp, 8000000
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> > Any number >= 8000000 (but < math-small-integer-size) fails in this way.
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> > The problem is the
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> >   (% (nth 1 n) 2) 0)
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> > of math-prime-test, which still expects numbers larger than 8000000 to
> > be in (bigpos ... ) list format, but the limit is much greater than that
> > these days.
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> > The calc manual is likewise outdated:
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> Thanks; this has been fixed in bzr.
> (I should increase the size of math-primes-table when I get the chance,
> too.)
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> > (First reported at
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679753 )
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> Ack; I never saw this.
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