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William D Clinger scripsit:
> No. Neither mandates that inexact reals be represented as
> binary floating point, or that inexact reals follow the IEEE
> standards for binary floating point, or that implementations
> of the standard procedures be of high quality.
This leads me to the question of how a system can comply with this
SRFI if it has neither flonum hardware nor the space for flonum
emulation. AFAICT the minimum set of flonums required by the
SRFI is {0.0}.
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John Cowan cowan@xxxxxxxx http://ccil.org/~cowan
Sound change operates regularly to produce irregularities;
analogy operates irregularly to produce regularities.
--E.H. Sturtevant, ca. 1945, probably at Yale