From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@chbouib.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Bug with large fractions Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:52:44 +0100 Message-ID: <87hcv07zar.fsf@chbouib.org> References: <87d55se4xv.fsf@chbouib.org> <87irfi7bso.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168372435 28446 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2007 19:53:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:53:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 09 20:53:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H4N2Q-0002CA-Jl for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:53:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4N2Q-0000hh-AI for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:53:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4N2M-0000gz-V3 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:53:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4N2M-0000gd-5g for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:53:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4N2M-0000ga-3P for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:53:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H4N2L-0005es-MA for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:53:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H4N20-00077V-VS for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:53:12 +0100 Original-Received: from adh419.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.9]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:53:12 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by adh419.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:53:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adh419.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 20 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Niv=F4se?= an 215 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEB1F5364 X-PGP-Key: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i486-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NSdnlRLBl9Paqltxty/hXb6H1Bk= X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6405 Archived-At: Hi, Kevin Ryde writes: > ludo@chbouib.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >> guile> 123123123123123123.12 >> 123123123123123000.0 > > I think it's been truncated to 53 bits for the mantissa of a double. Right, the value can't actually fit into a double and reals in Guile _are_ double (it took me a while to get it... ;-)). Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel