From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Can somebody help to explain why result from atan does not equal a real? Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:30:45 -0500 Message-ID: <87ip6cg9je.fsf@tines.lan> References: <87txpwgbc9.fsf@tines.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359678676 4798 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2013 00:31:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 00:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Hengqing Hu Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 01 01:31:36 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U14XY-0004gh-CX for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:31:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35322 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U14XG-0007Jg-9L for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:31:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U14XB-0007Ij-Og for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:31:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U14XA-0000jc-R8 for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:31:13 -0500 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:59736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U14XA-0000jM-L9 for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:31:12 -0500 Original-Received: from turntable.mit.edu ([18.160.0.29] helo=tines.lan) by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U14X3-0004Ok-W1; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:31:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87txpwgbc9.fsf@tines.lan> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:51:50 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 96.39.62.75 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:9963 Archived-At: I wrote: > Sorry, this is due to an inadequate 'number->string' implementation in > Guile. Having looked more closely, I see now that our 'string->number' is also less precise than it should be. I'll fix these issues soon. Mark