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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Subject: real == frac
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 06:58:55 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u14xphf4.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)

I noticed that

	(= 0.5 (+ 1/2 (/ 1 (ash 1 1000))))

gives #t, but I think with exact fractions it should now be #f, since
the second arg is 1/2+1/2^1000, not an actual 0.5.

I guess fraction2double is rounding, making the comparison not quite
right.  Going the other way, converting double to fraction and
comparing fractions would avoid that.

I suspect the same applies to all uses of fraction2double in <, min
and max too.


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             reply	other threads:[~2003-11-21 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-21 20:58 Kevin Ryde [this message]
2003-11-30  1:31 ` real == frac Marius Vollmer
2003-12-09 20:34   ` Kevin Ryde
2004-02-16 23:09 ` Kevin Ryde

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