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Re: r5rs section 6.2.3 inexactness and rational sqrt
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Kevin Ryde |
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Re: r5rs section 6.2.3 inexactness and rational sqrt |
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Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:23:40 +1000 |
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Ray Lehtiniemi <address@hidden> writes:
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> guile> (floor 1234)
> 1234.0
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> i'd expect that to be an exact integer, and indeed r5rs section 6.2.3
> says that (floor n) should return an exact integer as long as the input
> is exact:
Yep, that looks wrong. Marius applied a fix not so long ago in the
head, lobby him for the same in 1.6.
> guile> (rational? (sqrt 6))
> #t
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> should be #f, i think....
Alas, sqrt 6 comes out as a flonum, which is rational.