[Chicken-janitors] #1418: #e1e500 is not exact (numbers egg, possibly Chicken 5 as well)

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#1418: #e1e500 is not exact (numbers egg, possibly Chicken 5 as well)
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 Reporter:  johnwcowan  |                 Owner:
     Type:  defect      |                Status:  new
 Priority:  major       |             Milestone:  5.0
Component:  unknown     |               Version:  4.12.0
 Keywords:              |  Estimated difficulty:
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 Per R5RS and later standards, `#e1e500` is the same as
 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 0000000000000000000000000.

 But this is not so in Chicken, which treats `#e` the same as calling
 `inexact->exact`, and so returns `+inf.0`, which is neither exact nor
 correct.  When `#e` is present, the result needs to be computed by
 bignum/ratio arithmetic, even if what follows is a decimal fraction.

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Ticket URL: <https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1418>
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