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Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat
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Raymond Toy |
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Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat |
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Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:51:15 -0500 |
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>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Fateman <address@hidden> writes:
Richard> infinity. It also has signed zero, which we don't have in CL
Richard> either... the signed infinities
Richard> really are 1/(signed zeroes)... On the other hand, we allow for
limits
CL also doesn't disallow signed (floating-point) zeroes and even
mentions it in several sections. FWIW, CMUCL and SBCL support signed
zeroes and try pretty hard to do the right thing with them. These
also "support" double-float-positive-infinity,
double-float-negative-infinity, etc.
Ray
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat, (continued)
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat, Raymond Toy, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat, Camm Maguire, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat, Steve Haflich, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat, Raymond Toy, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat, Steve Haflich, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat, Camm Maguire, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat, Richard Fateman, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat, Steve Haflich, 2004/01/26
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat, Richard Fateman, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat, Richard Fateman, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat,
Raymond Toy <=
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat, Camm Maguire, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat, Raymond Toy, 2004/01/30
[Gcl-devel] RE: [Maxima] float to bfloat, Stavros Macrakis, 2004/01/23