Re: Fix for inconsistent (/ DIVIDEND DIVISOR &rest DIVISORS)

[Peter Whaite]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 06:27:11PM -0400, Peter Whaite wrote:
> > Some time ago there was a thread on division being inconsistent when
> > floats were involved.  I dont know what the outcome of that discussion
> > was, but it did occur to me that the simplest fix would be to multiply
> > the divisors before doing the division.
> 
> That might result in overflow where there wasn't any before, especially when
> all the args are fixnums.

Oh you're right and it isn't the first time I've fallen for that one.  I
was fixated on floats.

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Peter Whaite (http://whaite.ca)