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Update string-to-number documentation to bignum Emacs

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* doc/lispref/strings.texi (String Conversion): string-to-number
no longer converts integers to floating point numbers (bug#55334).
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Lars Ingebrigtsen 2022-05-09 11:57:46 +02:00
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@ -853,9 +853,7 @@ between 2 and 16 (inclusive), and integers are converted in that base.
If @var{base} is @code{nil}, then base ten is used. Floating-point
conversion only works in base ten; we have not implemented other
radices for floating-point numbers, because that would be much more
work and does not seem useful. If @var{string} looks like an integer
but its value is too large to fit into a Lisp integer,
@code{string-to-number} returns a floating-point result.
work and does not seem useful.
The parsing skips spaces and tabs at the beginning of @var{string},
then reads as much of @var{string} as it can interpret as a number in