On Dec 8, 2005, at 9:12 PM, Alex Shinn wrote:
On 12/7/05, Bradley Lucier <lucier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gambit 4.0b15 fails some srfi-56 tests because the first instance of
2.0 is not 2; unfortunately, Gambit-C calculates
(expt 2.0 -1074)
as
(/ (expt 2.0 1074))
Hi, thanks for looking into this and getting it working with Gambit.
The (expt 2.0 ...) form was there for the sake of Bigloo, for which
(expt N -M) => 0
for all exact integers N, M > 1.
This may not be unreasonable for an implementation without
rationals, like bigloo, but perhaps it would be better to do an
inexact expt in this case.
Choosing between the lesser of two evil^H^H^H^Hbugs,
I'm working on a new expt that trusts libm's pow function more ...
Brad