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Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinit
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Alex Shinn |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan |
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Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:32:31 +0900 |
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Felix
<address@hidden> wrote:
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> It is the general problem of floating-point equality. The underlying
> floating point representation is a platform-specific detail. It
> happens to be IEEE in most cases. R5RS doesn't require IEEE. Chicken
> does not (at least to my knowledge) require IEEE.
Nor does R7RS (the entire numeric tower is in fact optional).
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Alex
- [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan, Peter Bex, 2011/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan, John Cowan, 2011/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan, Felix, 2011/08/25
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan, Peter Bex, 2011/08/25
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan, Ivan Shmakov, 2011/08/25
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan, Felix, 2011/08/25
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan,
Alex Shinn <=
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan, Alaric Snell-Pym, 2011/08/25
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan, Felix, 2011/08/25
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan, John Cowan, 2011/08/25
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] CR: Division by inexact zero should return infinity/nan, John Cowan, 2011/08/25