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From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug in Guile
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:55:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r888y1nq.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030211181828.A29605@ns.jfreebies.com> (Dr William Bland's message of "Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:18:28 +0000")

Dr William Bland <wjb@abstractnonsense.com> writes:

> I have found what appears to be a bug in Guile's reading of large
> integers.  If I try the expression in the email included below in Guile
> 1.4, I get +#.#.  This has also been tried on Guile 1.6.2 and that gives
> an error (see the email below).

Hmm.  And 1.7 gives us:

guile> (sqrt 20740119327258723760276023509063017138455993606274883526731955113241109007354362374128996096291046353572306742110305456946824862203867115042369878729703475765112280167498189046437794602966168812419423365196979669431929588951126804648743029387833666031765734337165949634731375592471670294246180877815104812674626967450097045005117546657068700545263064105024888769118032059917845867653040419404003684559882509195398630922824050405379620513589699993980205694266973236095772153476388267418476533663512746243310317853861946430053072890502949319703765023792161144942611323629444409600173894963797156859916567288947565058003)
+inf.0
guile>

I'll add it to my list of things to look in to.  Now with GMP, we can
do a lot better than that.

-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org
Previously @cs.utexas.edu
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <pan.2003.02.10.18.44.40.803361@abstractnonsense.com>
     [not found] ` <87hebbonef.fsf@blarg.net>
     [not found]   ` <20030211102013.A28633@ns.jfreebies.com>
     [not found]     ` <87k7g6g5no.fsf@blarg.net>
2003-02-11 18:18       ` Bug in Guile Dr William Bland
2003-04-12  0:55         ` Rob Browning [this message]

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