* Bug in Guile
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@ 2003-02-11 18:18 ` Dr William Bland
2003-04-12 0:55 ` Rob Browning
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From: Dr William Bland @ 2003-02-11 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
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).
Best wishes,
Bill.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:10:03AM -0800, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
>
> You, sir, have found a bug. Please report it!
>
> Here's what I see with guile 1.6.2:
>
> guile> (sqrt 20740119327258723760276023509063017138455993606274883526731955113241109007354362374128996096291046353572306742110305456946824862203867115042369878729703475765112280167498189046437794602966168812419423365196979669431929588951126804648743029387833666031765734337165949634731375592471670294246180877815104812674626967450097045005117546657068700545263064105024888769118032059917845867653040419404003684559882509195398630922824050405379620513589699993980205694266973236095772153476388267418476533663512746243310317853861946430053072890502949319703765023792161144942611323629444409600173894963797156859916567288947565058003)
> standard input:104:1: In expression (sqrt 2074011932725872376027602350906301713845599360627488352673195511324110900735436237412899609629104635357230674211030545694682486220386711504236987872970347576511228016749818904643779460296616881241942336519697966943192958895112680464874302938783366603176573433716594963473137559247167029424618087781510481267462696745009704500511754665706870054526306410502488876911803205991784586765304041940400368455988250919539863092282405040537962051358969999398020569426697323609577215347638826741847653366351274624 3310317853861946430053072890502949319703765023792161144942611323629444409600173894963797156859916567288947565058003):
> standard input:104:1: Wrong number of arguments to #<procedure sqrt (z)>
> ABORT: (wrong-number-of-args)
>
> Note that it's broken the big number into two pieces by inserting a
> space.
>
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2003-02-11 18:18 ` Bug in Guile Dr William Bland
@ 2003-04-12 0:55 ` Rob Browning
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From: Rob Browning @ 2003-04-12 0:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: guile-devel
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.
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