On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 08:32:53AM -0500, Noah Lavine wrote: What you have here is a precision problem. scheme@(guile-user)> (= 3.14159265358979 (atan 0 -1)) $8 = #f scheme@(guile-user)> (= $7 (atan 0 -1)) $9 = #t It might be possible to have Guile print more digits and make this problem go away. Noah Lavine pi is an irrational number. You would need an infinite number of digits wouldn't you? -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://keys.gnupg.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.