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From: Bill Schottstaedt <bil@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ratio implementation
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 04:57:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F26612D.6090501@ccrma.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871xwakvv3.fsf@zip.com.au>

Kevin Ryde wrote:

>>I notice that r5rs seems to
>>imply that (inexact->exact .3) should return 3/10 (see the rationalize
>>example which is assuming this)
>>    
>>
>
>Isn't that the effect of the rationalize function, rather than
>inexact->exact?
>  
>
The example I was referring to was:

(rationalize
  (inexact->exact .3) 1/10)            ==> 1/3    ; exact


which only makes sense if (inexact->exact .3) does not
return 0, but 3/10.  Then rationalize of that with an
error of 1/10 finds the simpler ratio 1/3. In Guile
currently (I'm typing from work, so I can't actually
check this...), the (inexact->exact .3) returns 0,
so rationalize would also return 0.





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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-29 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-28 11:24 ratio implementation Bill Schottstaedt
2003-07-28 12:08 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2003-07-29  0:41 ` Kevin Ryde
2003-07-29 11:57   ` Bill Schottstaedt [this message]
2003-07-30 22:42     ` Kevin Ryde
2003-09-15 10:35 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-09-15 16:19   ` Rob Browning
2003-09-15 22:06   ` Dirk Herrmann
2003-09-15 22:59     ` Kevin Ryde
2003-09-16 11:39     ` Bill Schottstaedt
2003-09-16 21:36       ` Rob Browning
2003-09-18 21:09       ` Dirk Herrmann
2003-10-07 15:26         ` Marius Vollmer
2003-10-13 10:58           ` Bill Schottstaedt
2003-10-14  8:57             ` Marius Vollmer
2004-02-18 14:25               ` fractions.test Bill Schottstaedt
2003-10-14 12:39             ` ratio implementation Marius Vollmer
2003-10-14 22:56               ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-14 13:03             ` Marius Vollmer
2003-10-14 23:37               ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-16 11:49                 ` Bill Schottstaedt
2003-10-17 10:09                 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-10-17 11:47                   ` Bill Schottstaedt
2003-10-17 15:04                   ` Rob Browning
2003-10-18  0:45                   ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-15 12:57               ` Bill Schottstaedt
2003-10-17 10:20                 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-10-17 15:14                   ` Rob Browning
2003-10-17 15:42                     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-10-14 23:01             ` Kevin Ryde
2003-10-18  0:55               ` ash using shifts (was: ratio implementation) Kevin Ryde
2003-10-07 15:24       ` ratio implementation Marius Vollmer

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