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| From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@xxxxxxxxxx> | Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:27:30 -0700 | | Aubrey Jaffer <agj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: | | > Polar representation works because the polar coordinates of Real | > numbers are in one-to-one correspondence with the Real numbers. | > But one cannot casually add new inexact representations. | | I didn't say you could; I'm speaking about adding a new *exact* | representation. You seem to keep missing that, despite my repeating | it now three times. My apologies; I misinterpreted "this exactness can be easily preserved with a straightforward implementation." to refer to both exacts and inexacts. This thread is the result of my neglecting to qualify (as specific to inexacts) a comment about numerical representations. R5RS facilitates the incorporation of new varieties of exact numbers and their representations.