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Re: [Chicken-hackers] Patch for ticket #1587
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felix . winkelmann |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] Patch for ticket #1587 |
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Fri, 01 Mar 2019 13:58:46 +0100 |
> I agree also given the existence of complex demotion in Chicken, whereby
> (make-rectangular 1.0 0.0) => (the flonum 1.0). On the other hand, I think
> complex demotion is actually a Bad Thing because it means that inexactness
> in the computation of the imaginary part can make an inexact complex number
> into a real number, even though the imaginary part isn't truly zero.
I'm afraid I can't follow anymore, I'm not a math person. I just
want to avoid surprises when exactness of numbers may change
unexpectedly.
felix
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