Re: [Chicken-users] From inexact to exact using the "-" procedure?

[John Cowan]

Jeronimo Pellegrini scripsit:

> I think it makes sense to classify a number as inexact if part
> of its representation is inexact -- the same thing applies to
> (/ 2 3.0), which is not the "partially exact rational 2/3.0",
> using the same argument (how close is it to 2/3?)

Oh yes, absolutely.  The point I was discussing was not "What is
inexact?" but the related point "What is real?"

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