>> <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>