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29.4; Docstring for math-approx-sqrt-e is wrong

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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Subject: 29.4; Docstring for math-approx-sqrt-e is wrong
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:17:21 +0200

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math-approx-sqrt-e is a variable defined in ‘calc-ext.el’.

Its value is (float 1648721270700128146849 -21)

An approximation for sqrt(3).

  This variable may be risky if used as a file-local variable.


Obviously this should be sqrt(e) = 1.648..., whereas sqrt(3) = 1.732...

OK to push attached patch to the emacs-30 branch, or should it go to
master?

[0001-lisp-calc-calc-ext.el-math-approx-sqrt-e-Doc-fix.patch (text/plain, inline)]

From ec01569490f2df9999925d4471e627a6370606eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ulrich=20M=C3=BCller?= <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:06:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/calc/calc-ext.el (math-approx-sqrt-e): Doc fix.

---
 lisp/calc/calc-ext.el | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/calc/calc-ext.el b/lisp/calc/calc-ext.el
index 191149892a8..25d2492b277 100644
--- a/lisp/calc/calc-ext.el
+++ b/lisp/calc/calc-ext.el
@@ -2069,7 +2069,7 @@ math-sqrt-two-pi
 
 (defconst math-approx-sqrt-e
   (math-read-number-simple "1.648721270700128146849")
-  "An approximation for sqrt(3).")
+  "An approximation for sqrt(e).")
 
 (math-defcache math-sqrt-e math-approx-sqrt-e
   (math-add-float '(float 1 0) (math-exp-minus-1-raw '(float 5 -1))))
-- 
2.47.0

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