Re: [Scheme-reports] Strong win later reversed: Real numbers have imaginary part #e0 John Cowan (20 Dec 2012 15:23 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Strong win later reversed: Real numbers have imaginary part #e0 John Cowan 20 Dec 2012 15:22 UTC

Alex Shinn scripsit:

> I love this reasoning.  So every Scheme supports mixed exactness
> quaternions.  What a progressive language.

Well, maybe so if we had standard procedures jmag-part and kmag-part
for looking inside them.  But anyway, my reasoning was wrong: some
systems return 0 as the imag-part of an inexact real, whereas others
return 0.0.  I've collected the data and will be integrating it into
ComplexRepresentations.

--
John Cowan   cowan@ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
You cannot enter here.  Go back to the abyss prepared for you!  Go back!
Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.  Go! --Gandalf

_______________________________________________
Scheme-reports mailing list
Scheme-reports@scheme-reports.org
http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports