this behavior of inexact-exact in guile 1.7.1 causes my program to
become confused:
guile (inexact-exact 48.0)
48
guile (inexact-exact (* .1 480.0))
48
guile (inexact-exact (* (- 1.1 1) 480.0))
3377699720527875/70368744177664
guile(quit)
$ uname -a
Darwin pinhead.music.uiuc.edu 7.8.0 Darwin
Rick Taube wrote:
this behavior of inexact-exact in guile 1.7.1 causes my program to
become confused:
I suspect you're the one who is confused.
You need to learn about floating-point arithmetic.
(- 1.1 1) does not necessarily give the same result as 0.1.
i attempted to see if guile 1.7.2 fixes