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## 1 Numbers

Function: SIGNUM (number)

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  If NUMBER is zero, returns NUMBER; else returns (/ NUMBER (ABS NUMBER)).

Function: LOGNOT (integer)

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  Returns the bit-wise logical NOT of INTEGER.

Constant: MOST-POSITIVE-SHORT-FLOAT

  Package:LISP The short-float closest in value to positive infinity.

Function: INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT (float)

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  Returns, as three values, the integer interpretation of significand F, the exponent E, and the sign S of the given float, so that E FLOAT = S * F * B where B = (FLOAT-RADIX FLOAT)

  F is a non-negative integer, E is an integer, and S is either 1 or -1.

Function: MINUSP (number)

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  Returns T if NUMBER < 0; NIL otherwise.

Function: LOGORC1 (integer1 integer2)

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  Returns the logical OR of (LOGNOT INTEGER1) and INTEGER2.

Constant: MOST-NEGATIVE-SINGLE-FLOAT

  Package:LISP Same as MOST-NEGATIVE-LONG-FLOAT.

Constant: BOOLE-C1

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return the complement of INTEGER1.

Constant: LEAST-POSITIVE-SHORT-FLOAT

  Package:LISP The positive short-float closest in value to zero.

Function: BIT-NAND (bit-array1 bit-array2 &optional (result-bit-array nil))

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  Performs a bit-wise logical NAND on the elements of BIT-ARRAY1 and BIT-ARRAY2. Puts the results into a new bit array if RESULT-BIT-ARRAY is NIL, into BIT-ARRAY1 if RESULT-BIT-ARRAY is T, or into RESULT-BIT-ARRAY otherwise.

Function: INT-CHAR (integer)

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  Performs the inverse of CHAR-INT. Equivalent to CODE-CHAR in GCL.

Function: CHAR-INT (char)

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  Returns the font, bits, and code attributes as a single non-negative integer. Equivalent to CHAR-CODE in GCL.

Constant: LEAST-NEGATIVE-SINGLE-FLOAT

  Package:LISP Same as LEAST-NEGATIVE-LONG-FLOAT.

Function: /= (number &rest more-numbers)

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  Returns T if no two of its arguments are numerically equal; NIL otherwise.

Function: LDB-TEST (bytespec integer)

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  Returns T if at least one of the bits in the specified bytes of INTEGER is 1; NIL otherwise.

Constant: CHAR-CODE-LIMIT

  Package:LISP The upper exclusive bound on values produced by CHAR-CODE.

Function: RATIONAL (number)

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  Converts NUMBER into rational accurately and returns it.

Constant: PI

  Package:LISP The floating-point number that is appropriately equal to the ratio of the circumference of the circle to the diameter.

Function: SIN (radians)

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  Returns the sine of RADIANS.

Constant: BOOLE-ORC2

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return LOGORC2 of INTEGER1 and INTEGER2.

Function: NUMERATOR (rational)

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  Returns as an integer the numerator of the given rational number.

Function: MASK-FIELD (bytespec integer)

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  Extracts the specified byte from INTEGER.

Special Form: INCF

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  Syntax:

      (incf place [delta])

  Adds the number produced by DELTA (which defaults to 1) to the number in PLACE.

Function: SINH (number)

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  Returns the hyperbolic sine of NUMBER.

Function: PHASE (number)

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  Returns the angle part of the polar representation of a complex number. For non-complex numbers, this is 0.

Function: BOOLE (op integer1 integer2)

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  Returns an integer produced by performing the logical operation specified by OP on the two integers. OP must be the value of one of the following constants: BOOLE-CLR BOOLE-C1 BOOLE-XOR BOOLE-ANDC1 BOOLE-SET BOOLE-C2 BOOLE-EQV BOOLE-ANDC2 BOOLE-1 BOOLE-AND BOOLE-NAND BOOLE-ORC1 BOOLE-2 BOOLE-IOR BOOLE-NOR BOOLE-ORC2 See the variable docs of these constants for their operations.

Constant: SHORT-FLOAT-EPSILON

  Package:LISP The smallest positive short-float that satisfies (not (= (float 1 e) (+ (float 1 e) e))).

Function: LOGORC2 (integer1 integer2)

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  Returns the logical OR of INTEGER1 and (LOGNOT INTEGER2).

Constant: BOOLE-C2

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return the complement of INTEGER2.

Function: REALPART (number)

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  Extracts the real part of NUMBER.

Constant: BOOLE-CLR

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return 0.

Constant: BOOLE-IOR

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return LOGIOR of INTEGER1 and INTEGER2.

Function: FTRUNCATE (number &optional (divisor 1))

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  Values: (quotient remainder) Same as TRUNCATE, but returns first value as a float.

Function: EQL (x y)

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  Returns T if X and Y are EQ, or if they are numbers of the same type with the same value, or if they are character objects that represent the same character. Returns NIL otherwise.

Function: LOG (number &optional base)

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  Returns the logarithm of NUMBER in the base BASE. BASE defaults to the base of natural logarithms.

Constant: DOUBLE-FLOAT-NEGATIVE-EPSILON

  Package:LISP Same as LONG-FLOAT-NEGATIVE-EPSILON.

Function: LOGIOR (&rest integers)

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  Returns the bit-wise INCLUSIVE OR of its arguments.

Constant: MOST-NEGATIVE-DOUBLE-FLOAT

  Package:LISP Same as MOST-NEGATIVE-LONG-FLOAT.

Function: / (number &rest more-numbers)

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  Divides the first NUMBER by each of the subsequent NUMBERS. With one arg, returns the reciprocal of the number.

Variable: *RANDOM-STATE*

  Package:LISP The default random-state object used by RAMDOM.

Function: 1+ (number)

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  Returns NUMBER + 1.

Constant: LEAST-NEGATIVE-DOUBLE-FLOAT

  Package:LISP Same as LEAST-NEGATIVE-LONG-FLOAT.

Function: FCEILING (number &optional (divisor 1))

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  Same as CEILING, but returns a float as the first value.

Constant: MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM

  Package:LISP The fixnum closest in value to positive infinity.

Function: BIT-ANDC1 (bit-array1 bit-array2 &optional (result-bit-array nil))

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  Performs a bit-wise logical ANDC1 on the elements of BIT-ARRAY1 and BIT-ARRAY2. Puts the results into a new bit array if RESULT-BIT-ARRAY is NIL, into BIT-ARRAY1 if RESULT-BIT-ARRAY is T, or into RESULT-BIT-ARRAY otherwise.

Function: TAN (radians)

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  Returns the tangent of RADIANS.

Constant: BOOLE-NAND

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return LOGNAND of INTEGER1 and INTEGER2.

Function: TANH (number)

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  Returns the hyperbolic tangent of NUMBER.

Function: ASIN (number)

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  Returns the arc sine of NUMBER.

Function: BYTE (size position)

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  Returns a byte specifier. In GCL, a byte specifier is represented by a dotted pair (<size> . <position>).

Function: ASINH (number)

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  Returns the hyperbolic arc sine of NUMBER.

Constant: MOST-POSITIVE-LONG-FLOAT

  Package:LISP The long-float closest in value to positive infinity.

Macro: SHIFTF

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  Syntax:

      (shiftf {place}+ newvalue)

  Evaluates all PLACEs and NEWVALUE in turn, then assigns the value of each form to the PLACE on its left. Returns the original value of the leftmost form.

Constant: LEAST-POSITIVE-LONG-FLOAT

  Package:LISP The positive long-float closest in value to zero.

Function: DEPOSIT-FIELD (newbyte bytespec integer)

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  Returns an integer computed by replacing the specified byte of INTEGER with the specified byte of NEWBYTE.

Function: BIT-AND (bit-array1 bit-array2 &optional (result-bit-array nil))

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  Performs a bit-wise logical AND on the elements of BIT-ARRAY1 and BIT-ARRAY2. Puts the results into a new bit array if RESULT-BIT-ARRAY is NIL, into BIT-ARRAY1 if RESULT-BIT-ARRAY is T, or into RESULT-BIT-ARRAY otherwise.

Function: LOGNAND (integer1 integer2)

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  Returns the complement of the logical AND of INTEGER1 and INTEGER2.

Function: BYTE-POSITION (bytespec)

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  Returns the position part (in GCL, the cdr part) of the byte specifier.

Macro: ROTATEF

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  Syntax:

      (rotatef {place}*)

  Evaluates PLACEs in turn, then assigns to each PLACE the value of the form to its right. The rightmost PLACE gets the value of the leftmost PLACE. Returns NIL always.

Function: BIT-ANDC2 (bit-array1 bit-array2 &optional (result-bit-array nil))

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  Performs a bit-wise logical ANDC2 on the elements of BIT-ARRAY1 and BIT-ARRAY2. Puts the results into a new bit array if RESULT-BIT-ARRAY is NIL, into BIT-ARRAY1 if RESULT-BIT-ARRAY is T, or into RESULT-BIT-ARRAY otherwise.

Function: TRUNCATE (number &optional (divisor 1))

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  Values: (quotient remainder) Returns NUMBER/DIVISOR as an integer, rounded toward 0. The second returned value is the remainder.

Constant: BOOLE-EQV

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return LOGEQV of INTEGER1 and INTEGER2.

Constant: BOOLE-SET

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return -1.

Function: LDB (bytespec integer)

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  Extracts and right-justifies the specified byte of INTEGER, and returns the result.

Function: BYTE-SIZE (bytespec)

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  Returns the size part (in GCL, the car part) of the byte specifier.

Constant: SHORT-FLOAT-NEGATIVE-EPSILON

  Package:LISP The smallest positive short-float that satisfies (not (= (float 1 e) (- (float 1 e) e))).

Function: REM (number divisor)

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  Returns the second value of (TRUNCATE NUMBER DIVISOR).

Function: MIN (number &rest more-numbers)

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  Returns the least of its arguments.

Function: EXP (number)

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  Calculates e raised to the power NUMBER, where e is the base of natural logarithms.

Function: DECODE-FLOAT (float)

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  Returns, as three values, the significand F, the exponent E, and the sign S of the given float, so that E FLOAT = S * F * B where B = (FLOAT-RADIX FLOAT)

  S and F are floating-point numbers of the same float format as FLOAT, and E is an integer.

Constant: LONG-FLOAT-EPSILON

  Package:LISP The smallest positive long-float that satisfies (not (= (float 1 e) (+ (float 1 e) e))).

Function: FROUND (number &optional (divisor 1))

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  Same as ROUND, but returns first value as a float.

Function: LOGEQV (&rest integers)

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  Returns the bit-wise EQUIVALENCE of its arguments.

Constant: MOST-NEGATIVE-SHORT-FLOAT

  Package:LISP The short-float closest in value to negative infinity.

Function: BIT-NOR (bit-array1 bit-array2 &optional (result-bit-array nil))

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  Performs a bit-wise logical NOR on the elements of BIT-ARRAY1 and BIT-ARRAY2. Puts the results into a new bit array if RESULT-BIT-ARRAY is NIL, into BIT-ARRAY1 if RESULT-BIT-ARRAY is T, or into RESULT-BIT-ARRAY otherwise.

Function: CEILING (number &optional (divisor 1))

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  Returns the smallest integer not less than or NUMBER/DIVISOR. Returns the remainder as the second value.

Constant: LEAST-NEGATIVE-SHORT-FLOAT

  Package:LISP The negative short-float closest in value to zero.

Function: 1- (number)

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  Returns NUMBER - 1.

Function: <= (number &rest more-numbers)

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  Returns T if arguments are in strictly non-decreasing order; NIL otherwise.

Function: IMAGPART (number)

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  Extracts the imaginary part of NUMBER.

Function: INTEGERP (x)

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  Returns T if X is an integer (fixnum or bignum); NIL otherwise.

Function: ASH (integer count)

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  Shifts INTEGER left by COUNT places. Shifts right if COUNT is negative.

Function: LCM (integer &rest more-integers)

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  Returns the least common multiple of the arguments.

Function: COS (radians)

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  Returns the cosine of RADIANS.

Special Form: DECF

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  Syntax:

      (decf place [delta])

  Subtracts the number produced by DELTA (which defaults to 1) from the number in PLACE.

Function: ATAN (x &optional (y 1))

  Package:LISP Returns the arc tangent of X/Y.

Constant: BOOLE-ANDC1

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return LOGANDC1 of INTEGER1 and INTEGER2.

Function: COSH (number)

  Package:LISP Returns the hyperbolic cosine of NUMBER.

Function: FLOAT-RADIX (float)

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  Returns the representation radix (or base) of the floating-point number.

Function: ATANH (number)

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  Returns the hyperbolic arc tangent of NUMBER.

Function: EVENP (integer)

  Package:LISP Returns T if INTEGER is even. Returns NIL if INTEGER is odd.

Function: ZEROP (number)

  Package:LISP Returns T if NUMBER = 0; NIL otherwise.

Function: FLOATP (x)

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  Returns T if X is a floating-point number; NIL otherwise.

Function: SXHASH (object)

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  Computes a hash code for OBJECT and returns it as an integer.

Constant: BOOLE-1

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return INTEGER1.

Constant: MOST-POSITIVE-SINGLE-FLOAT

  Package:LISP Same as MOST-POSITIVE-LONG-FLOAT.

Function: LOGANDC1 (integer1 integer2)

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  Returns the logical AND of (LOGNOT INTEGER1) and INTEGER2.

Constant: LEAST-POSITIVE-SINGLE-FLOAT

  Package:LISP Same as LEAST-POSITIVE-LONG-FLOAT.

Function: COMPLEXP (x)

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  Returns T if X is a complex number; NIL otherwise.

Constant: BOOLE-AND

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return LOGAND of INTEGER1 and INTEGER2.

Function: MAX (number &rest more-numbers)

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  Returns the greatest of its arguments.

Function: FLOAT-SIGN (float1 &optional (float2 (float 1 float1)))

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  Returns a floating-point number with the same sign as FLOAT1 and with the same absolute value as FLOAT2.

Constant: BOOLE-ANDC2

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return LOGANDC2 of INTEGER1 and INTEGER2.

Function: DENOMINATOR (rational)

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  Returns the denominator of RATIONAL as an integer.

Function: FLOAT (number &optional other)

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  Converts a non-complex number to a floating-point number. If NUMBER is already a float, FLOAT simply returns NUMBER. Otherwise, the format of the returned float depends on OTHER; If OTHER is not provided, FLOAT returns a SINGLE-FLOAT. If OTHER is provided, the result is in the same float format as OTHER’s.

Function: ROUND (number &optional (divisor 1))

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  Rounds NUMBER/DIVISOR to nearest integer. The second returned value is the remainder.

Function: LOGAND (&rest integers)

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  Returns the bit-wise AND of its arguments.

Constant: BOOLE-2

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return INTEGER2.

Function: * (&rest numbers)

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  Returns the product of its arguments. With no args, returns 1.

Function: < (number &rest more-numbers)

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  Returns T if its arguments are in strictly increasing order; NIL otherwise.

Function: COMPLEX (realpart &optional (imagpart 0))

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  Returns a complex number with the given real and imaginary parts.

Constant: SINGLE-FLOAT-EPSILON

  Package:LISP Same as LONG-FLOAT-EPSILON.

Function: LOGANDC2 (integer1 integer2)

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  Returns the logical AND of INTEGER1 and (LOGNOT INTEGER2).

Function: INTEGER-LENGTH (integer)

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  Returns the number of significant bits in the absolute value of INTEGER.

Constant: MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM

  Package:LISP The fixnum closest in value to negative infinity.

Constant: LONG-FLOAT-NEGATIVE-EPSILON

  Package:LISP The smallest positive long-float that satisfies (not (= (float 1 e) (- (float 1 e) e))).

Function: >= (number &rest more-numbers)

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  Returns T if arguments are in strictly non-increasing order; NIL otherwise.

Constant: BOOLE-NOR

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return LOGNOR of INTEGER1 and INTEGER2.

Function: ACOS (number)

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  Returns the arc cosine of NUMBER.

Function: MAKE-RANDOM-STATE (&optional (state *random-state*))

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  Creates and returns a copy of the specified random state. If STATE is NIL, then the value of *RANDOM-STATE* is used. If STATE is T, then returns a random state object generated from the universal time.

Function: EXPT (base-number power-number)

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  Returns BASE-NUMBER raised to the power POWER-NUMBER.

Function: SQRT (number)

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  Returns the principal square root of NUMBER.

Function: SCALE-FLOAT (float integer)

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  Returns (* FLOAT (expt (float-radix FLOAT) INTEGER)).

Function: ACOSH (number)

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  Returns the hyperbolic arc cosine of NUMBER.

Constant: MOST-NEGATIVE-LONG-FLOAT

  Package:LISP The long-float closest in value to negative infinity.

Constant: LEAST-NEGATIVE-LONG-FLOAT

  Package:LISP The negative long-float closest in value to zero.

Function: FFLOOR (number &optional (divisor 1))

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  Same as FLOOR, but returns a float as the first value.

Function: LOGNOR (integer1 integer2)

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  Returns the complement of the logical OR of INTEGER1 and INTEGER2.

Function: PARSE-INTEGER (string &key (start 0) (end (length string)) (radix 10) (junk-allowed nil))

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  Parses STRING for an integer and returns it.

Function: + (&rest numbers)

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  Returns the sum of its arguments. With no args, returns 0.

Function: = (number &rest more-numbers)

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  Returns T if all of its arguments are numerically equal; NIL otherwise.

Function: NUMBERP (x)

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  Returns T if X is any kind of number; NIL otherwise.

Constant: MOST-POSITIVE-DOUBLE-FLOAT

  Package:LISP Same as MOST-POSITIVE-LONG-FLOAT.

Function: LOGTEST (integer1 integer2)

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  Returns T if LOGAND of INTEGER1 and INTEGER2 is not zero; NIL otherwise.

Function: RANDOM-STATE-P (x)

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  Returns T if X is a random-state object; NIL otherwise.

Constant: LEAST-POSITIVE-DOUBLE-FLOAT

  Package:LISP Same as LEAST-POSITIVE-LONG-FLOAT.

Function: FLOAT-PRECISION (float)

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  Returns the number of significant radix-B digits used to represent the significand F of the floating-point number, where B = (FLOAT-RADIX FLOAT).

Constant: BOOLE-XOR

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return LOGXOR of INTEGER1 and INTEGER2.

Function: DPB (newbyte bytespec integer)

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  Returns an integer computed by replacing the specified byte of INTEGER with NEWBYTE.

Function: ABS (number)

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  Returns the absolute value of NUMBER.

Function: CONJUGATE (number)

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  Returns the complex conjugate of NUMBER.

Function: CIS (radians)

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  Returns e raised to i*RADIANS.

Function: ODDP (integer)

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  Returns T if INTEGER is odd; NIL otherwise.

Function: RATIONALIZE (number)

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  Converts NUMBER into rational approximately and returns it.

Function: ISQRT (integer)

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  Returns the greatest integer less than or equal to the square root of the given non-negative integer.

Function: LOGXOR (&rest integers)

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  Returns the bit-wise EXCLUSIVE OR of its arguments.

Function: > (number &rest more-numbers)

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  Returns T if its arguments are in strictly decreasing order; NIL otherwise.

Function: LOGBITP (index integer)

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  Returns T if the INDEX-th bit of INTEGER is 1.

Constant: DOUBLE-FLOAT-EPSILON

  Package:LISP Same as LONG-FLOAT-EPSILON.

Function: LOGCOUNT (integer)

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  If INTEGER is negative, returns the number of 0 bits. Otherwise, returns the number of 1 bits.

Function: GCD (&rest integers)

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  Returns the greatest common divisor of INTEGERs.

Function: RATIONALP (x)

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  Returns T if X is an integer or a ratio; NIL otherwise.

Function: MOD (number divisor)

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  Returns the second result of (FLOOR NUMBER DIVISOR).

Function: MODF (number)

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  Returns the integer and fractional part of a floating point number mod 1.0.

Constant: BOOLE-ORC1

  Package:LISP Makes BOOLE return LOGORC1 of INTEGER1 and INTEGER2.

Constant: SINGLE-FLOAT-NEGATIVE-EPSILON

  Package:LISP Same as LONG-FLOAT-NEGATIVE-EPSILON.

Function: FLOOR (number &optional (divisor 1))

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  Returns the largest integer not larger than the NUMBER divided by DIVISOR. The second returned value is (- NUMBER (* first-value DIVISOR)).

Function: PLUSP (number)

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  Returns T if NUMBER > 0; NIL otherwise.

Function: FLOAT-DIGITS (float)

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  Returns the number of radix-B digits used to represent the significand F of the floating-point number, where B = (FLOAT-RADIX FLOAT).

Function: RANDOM (number &optional (state *random-state*))

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  Generates a uniformly distributed pseudo-random number between zero (inclusive) and NUMBER (exclusive), by using the random state object STATE.

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