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* HEAD has now exact fractions
@ 2003-11-18 22:14 Marius Vollmer
  2003-11-18 22:23 ` Neil Jerram
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From: Marius Vollmer @ 2003-11-18 22:14 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hi,

I have committed the exact fraction support from Bill Schottstaedt.
Thanks alot Bill!

Please give it a beating and report all things you notice.

I have changed Bill's original code to varying degrees, so don't blame
him for anything that looks wrong.


Here are the relevant NEWS entries:

** Guile now has exact rationals.
 
Guile can now represent fractions such as 1/3 exactly.  Computing with
them is also done exactly, of course:
 
    (* 1/3 3/2)
    => 1/2
 
** 'floor', 'ceiling', 'round' and 'truncate' now return exact numbers
   for exact arguments.
 
For example: (floor 2) now returns an exact 2 where in the past it
returned an inexact 2.0.  Likewise, (floor 5/4) returns an exact 1.
 
** inexact->exact no longer returns only integers.
 
Without exact rationals, the closest exact number was always an
integer, but now inexact->exact returns the fraction that is exactly
equal to a floating point number.  For example:
 
    (inexact->exact 1.234)
    => 694680242521899/562949953421312
 
When you want the old behavior, use 'round' explicitely:
 
    (inexact->exact (round 1.234))
    => 1
 
** New function 'rationalize'.
 
This function finds a simple fraction that is close to a given real
number.  For example (and compare with inexact->exact above):
 
    (rationalize 1.234 0.0005)
    => 58/47
 
** 'odd?' and 'even?' work also for inexact integers.
 
Previously, (odd? 1.0) would signal an error since only exact integers
were recognized as integers.  Now (odd? 1.0) returns #t, (odd? 2.0)
returns #f and (odd? 1.5) signals an error.
 


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