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

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