Bear scripsit: > If you get +inf.0 instead, that's still nonsense (because you multiplied > something finite by something finite, mathematically you should have > a finite result)
It's not nonsense, actually. Inexact numbers can be interpreted as intervals, and +inf.0 can then be identified with the open interval (1.79769313486231570e+308, \infty). So when you get +inf.0 from multiplying two exact numbers, you are being told with 100% correctness that the answer falls into that interval. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [email protected] When I'm stuck in something boring where reading would be impossible or rude, I often set up math problems for myself and solve them as a way to pass the time. --John Jenkins _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
