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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange division using mixed integers and floats
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 06:13:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1BIm42-0001H5-4B@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yoijk702ye7i.fsf@frealaf.dd.chalmers.se> (bojohan@dd.chalmers.se)

    But this behaviour is *highly* confusing:

    (/ 5 4 2.3) => 0.4347826086956522

    Cf. (/ 5 4.0 2.3) => 0.5434782608695653

We could change the functions to convert the arguments to
floating point at the start if any is floating point.

Is there any reason not to do that?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-28 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-26 15:02 Strange division using mixed integers and floats Johan Bockgård
2004-04-27 15:46 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-04-28 10:13 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-04-28 11:05   ` David Kastrup
2004-04-28 13:20     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2004-04-28 14:02     ` Andreas Schwab
2004-04-28 15:59       ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-04-29 13:31     ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-29 17:17       ` peta

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