Re: [Scheme-reports] Numerical example (real? -2.5+0.0i) Andre van Tonder (15 Aug 2011 20:32 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Numerical example (real? -2.5+0.0i) Aubrey Jaffer (16 Aug 2011 17:29 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Numerical example (real? -2.5+0.0i) Andre van Tonder (16 Aug 2011 20:03 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Numerical example (real? -2.5+0.0i) Aubrey Jaffer (18 Aug 2011 16:02 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Numerical example (real? -2.5+0.0i) Aubrey Jaffer (02 Oct 2011 03:03 UTC)
Re: [Scheme-reports] Numerical example (real? -2.5+0.0i) Aubrey Jaffer (03 Oct 2011 02:09 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Numerical example (real? -2.5+0.0i) Andre van Tonder 15 Aug 2011 20:32 UTC

On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, John Cowan wrote:

> 0.0 just means a number x such that
> 0 < x < the smallest representable inexact number.

I think that's a contradiction in terms. :)  If inexact numbers like 0.0
represent intervals, then the smallest representable inexact number is
presumably also an interval, and cannot be the endpoint of an interval.

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