@UlrikeFischer If it's a bot, it also leaves comments saying the other answer is wrong. That doesn't seem bot-like to me.

@AlanMunn I can see @StefanKottwitz's logic: it's basically a link-only answer, and those are not allowed (very early on we were a bit more laid back)

@AlanMunn I didn't say it is a bot, only that something looks fishy.

@UlrikeFischer Ah, that user BsAxUbx5KoQDEpCAqSffwGy554PSah from 7aHp#,"Tmi/dHAL!{]$Z&!_Jbty+Q with the profile text TJtz@3m'Qv>tD7,PV]ed(Ta&YzNt$S+xkF"aoyv#]>2:ccvhu{Z=zR<\4A,Q<Y

@AlanMunn That answer was only throwing in a command name without comment apart from no argument required, which is copied/linked, was already covered in detail, got a criticizing comment upvoted by 3 other users, got flagged, got a delete vote, once it's flagged I had to decide yes/no, and seen the all this I added my delete vote. No problem with undeleting it, it was just a flagged thing on the table to decide. @JasperHabicht the user is here since 8 months and 1 year on SE sites, no newbie

@StefanKottwitz You are right. I just saw this that this person is not quite a newbie ... well, I just let you (or the community) decide =D At first, I just judged by the relevant answer alone and I thought that it was maybe not quite necessary to delete this answer. But I am not a moderator who deals with these things very often.

Trieste is warm. And no pineapple on the pizza. disappoint

@mickep Trieste is beautiful!

@CarLaTeX indeed! Tough to walk too much in the heat, but... Tomorrow we go to Bolzano. Where do you live?

@mickep In Milan, Bolzano is usually hot because it is in a basin

@CarLaTeX 29 degrees it seems, we'll get burned (pineapple)... 🙄

@mickep 30° today in Milan, but if think it will rain tomorrow

@CarLaTeX 30 is hot. Are there good places to hide in Milano? Any water? (Here it should rain at 22, but we'll see)

@mickep We don't have a river but we have the Navigli (navigable channels), they are also the "movida" place

@CarLaTeX aha, cool

@mickep 35° in Madrid... (but we are used. At least it's dry)

@DavidCarlisle @JosephWright @UlrikeFischer When did LaTeX first gain the ability to do floating point computation? I know that feature was recently added to the kernel, but when was it first introduced?

@LaTeXereXeTaL What do you mean by floating point computation? You could have used the primitive \dimexpr for quite some time. Do you mean IEEE floating point? Then it only arrived with expl3's introduction into the kernel (although available through packages beforehand).

@LaTeXereXeTaL l3fp package from Bruno

@LaTeXereXeTaL 2011 or so looking at file copyright dates

% \begin{function}[EXP, added = 2012-05-08, updated = 2012-07-08,
%   tested = m3fp-convert003]{\fp_eval:n}

@LaTeXereXeTaL ^^^

@TeXnician The first arrival, via packages, of that which was recently added to the kernel.

@DavidCarlisle @JosephWright I remember Bruno's name was associated with this but didn't know which package was the first. Thank you all.

@JosephWright I thought Bruno did first version but l3news says it was you... tug.org/TUGboat/tb31-3/tb99complete.pdf

@DavidCarlisle Yes: I wrote something non-expandable in the style of the fp package, then Bruno re-did everything in l3trial, we agreed it and looking back I shifted from trial to kernel

@JosephWright ah I see. 2010-12 was when I was probably only half paying attention:-)

@DavidCarlisle :)

@DavidCarlisle I had to check the dates, but I remembered the overall flow

@DavidCarlisle I think I needed floats for xcoffins, as dimexpr didn't cut it for the rotation cacls

@JosephWright shh I thought trig.sty was numerically perfect