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Recursion Depth
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Calc uses recursion in many of its calculations. Emacs Lisp keeps a
variable `max-lisp-eval-depth' which limits the amount of recursion
possible in an attempt to recover from program bugs. If a calculation
ever halts incorrectly with the message "Computation got stuck or ran
too long," use the `M' command (`calc-more-recursion-depth') to
increase this limit. (Of course, this will not help if the
calculation really did get stuck due to some problem inside Calc.)
The limit is always increased (multiplied) by a factor of two. There
is also an `I M' (`calc-less-recursion-depth') command which decreases
this limit by a factor of two, down to a minimum value of 200. The
default value is 1000.
These commands also double or halve `max-specpdl-size', another
internal Lisp recursion limit. The minimum value for this limit is
600.