Thanks for the encouragement to look up lisp's numeric tower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_tower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_tower), that

Thanks for the encouragement to look up lisp's numeric tower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_tower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_tower), that was interesting to compare to the languages I'm more familiar with.