From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Complex, exact numbers Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:27:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: <827574.39182.qm@web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285619042 23845 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2010 20:24:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:24:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Mike Gran Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 27 22:24:00 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0KEx-00007U-4g for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:23:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37792 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0KEw-0003ji-JG for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:23:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44828 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0KEo-0003io-I7 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:23:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0KEn-00044Q-Bg for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:23:50 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:41055 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0KEn-00044L-9I for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:23:49 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 288E2DADD6; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:23:49 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=vIlkQKhY1QooexUp3kzmWIfKJRA=; b=g+qfPM N6GP0v2yo5wKXnmHfgq4yX3qQEsjANu+l+J3BCqwKCO08a1mWMaSO7yejLZSUj+M 0fR6zh+dknn9N0j6oPn+6rfwKVngPUVX521Hiic/Q/m49CM38IQ3YIvi6JAvboqj mAMnJ8fNWmEpcOpDNotVMpQ9hLS+0RKLyIGEU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=DEM+Qkvx7SXLd+XGIuG0d7X1Otni3z4H 4i3kP14+x4tG0wRHuaDVHrlif4iiDKSB1PRCJsBLdpQVrT4zasw1zQClZbrboYKd cuxmjD/1Bh7OH73zOz9xzYta3yHPA71cDcbO85MFjkDIKm2BZ3PP1VyUtUYmFIaF ITlAcfiIYN0= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 158BCDADD5; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:23:48 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [88.17.207.232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 65F7BDADD3; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:23:46 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <827574.39182.qm@web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (Mike Gran's message of "Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:00:47 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 2253B568-CA75-11DF-B636-030CEE7EF46B-02397024!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:10963 Archived-At: On Mon 27 Sep 2010 00:00, Mike Gran writes: > Should a number be able to be both complex and exact? It can be in theory. However in Guile complex numbers are always inexact. Do you need exact complex numbers? It's probably possible to implement, but I don't know of any use for them. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/