From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: mpz_cmp_d and NaNs in = and < Date: 17 May 2003 13:19:38 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87wugp7rcl.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <87isspt1sc.fsf@zip.com.au> <87issjvhhm.fsf@zip.com.au> <87fznnge0i.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <87u1bz21xp.fsf@zip.com.au> <20030513102131.GA29155@www> <874r3unzq1.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053170452 15909 80.91.224.249 (17 May 2003 11:20:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 11:20:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 17 13:20:49 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Gzk9-00048I-00 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 13:20:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Gzl7-00005k-00 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2003 07:21:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19GzkS-0007mZ-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2003 07:21:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19GzjZ-0006Up-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2003 07:20:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.dokom.net ([195.253.8.218]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19GzjY-0006Kf-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2003 07:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway43.dip54.dokom.de ([195.138.43.54] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by mail.dokom.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #3) id 19Gzl7-000322-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2003 13:21:49 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 31766 invoked by uid 1000); 17 May 2003 11:19:38 -0000 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <874r3unzq1.fsf@zip.com.au> Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2386 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2386 Kevin Ryde writes: > rm@fabula.de writes: > > > > Divide by it and you'll see :-) > > Oh, well, all I mean is that it's hard to see what it could represent. > A sort of remnant parity indicating how many positives and negatives > went into a product or something. But I don't pretend to any great > expertise in this sort of area, so maybe it's good for something. There ought to be some good stuff in Branch Cuts for Complex Elementary Functions, or Much Ado About Nothing's Sign Bit in The State of the Art in Numerical Analysis, (eds. Iserles and Powell), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987. but I couldn't find an online copy. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel