On Sep 1, 2010, at 9:14 AM, I wrote: > The "#i" indicates that a number is inexact, and that further computation > based on it should be interpreted accordingly. The Scheme/Racket numeric > libraries automatically mark as "inexact" most results of trig, exponential, > log, sqrt, and similar functions, even if the inputs were exact, because the > mathematically correct answers to these are irrational and don't have exact > representations in any common, convenient computer representation. Likewise,
A sentence got cut off here, saying that the predefined constants pi and e are marked as inexact. Stephen Bloch [email protected] _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
