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"Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number." Gerald Jay Sussman.
by fusionadvocate 7mo ago
"Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number." Gerald Jay Sussman.
- nxobject 7mo agoNot-so-coincidentally, Scheme specifies an exact rational number type. [0] This does not simplify things. [1] [0] https://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo/doc/r5rs-9.html#Numbers https://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo/doc/r5rs-9.html#Num... [1] https://www.deinprogramm.de/sperber/papers/numerical-tower.pdf https://www.deinprogramm.de/sperber/papers/numerical-tower.p...