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Re: [Chicken-users] Numbers weirdness
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Peter Bex |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Numbers weirdness |
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Fri, 1 Apr 2016 18:53:18 +0200 |
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On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:48:54PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Trying (log2 (expt 2 251)) in Racket, which prints 64-bit floats
> accurately (unlike Chicken, which depends on C to do it)
That's a complete mischaracterisation. First, it depends on your
definition of "accurately", and secondly, you can tell CHICKEN to
change the print precision. See my other mail, which shows that
Racket is _also_ truncating the value, just after more digits than
CHICKEN is doing so.
Cheers,
Peter
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