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Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in numbers egg version of expt
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Kon Lovett |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in numbers egg version of expt |
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Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:20:01 -0700 |
On Sep 23, 2009, at 8:34 AM, John Cowan wrote:
When the numbers egg is loaded, the expressions (expt 27 1/3) and
(expt
4/3 1/3), rather than returning inexact results 3.0 and
1.25992104989487
respectively, signal an error "Error: (even?) bad argument type -
not an integer - 1/3". They are evidently dispatching to the exact
algorithm even though they should not: these cases should invoke the
flonum algorithm.
Please try numbers:1.809.
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