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

[David Kastrup]

Peter Whaite <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Floats also overflow, merely later.

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