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Re: arithmetic issues

To: William D Clinger <will@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: arithmetic issues
From: Alan Watson <a.watson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:47:47 -0600
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William D Clinger wrote:

type declarations cannot address the
portability and predictability issues unless implementations
are required to interpret those declarations in a consistent

way.

By "predictability", do the authors of the SRFI mean that inexactarithmetic gives the same result everywhere, that (/ 1 2) gives the sameresult everywhere, or something else?


Regards,

Alan
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Dr Alan Watson
Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica
Universidad Astronómico Nacional de México

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