Floating point exceptions
Andrew C. Greenberg
werdna at gate.net
Tue Mar 23 01:43:58 UTC 1999
>> <fifty-percent-joke>
>> I think the obvious thing to do is to get rid of Floats. They cause more
>> trouble than they're worth.
>> </fifty-percent-joke>
*snip*
> As the Scheme spec says:
>
>
> It is important to distinguish between the mathematical numbers, the
> Scheme numbers that attempt to model them, the machine representations
> used to implement the Scheme numbers, and notations used to write
> numbers. This report uses the types number, complex, real,
> rational, and
> integer to refer to both mathematical numbers and Scheme
> numbers. Machine
> representations such as fixed point and floating point are
> referred to by
> names such as fixnum and flonum.
<fifty percent joke>
Boy, that makes Floats suddenly seem well worth the trouble!
</fifty pecent joke>
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