Göran Weinholt <[email protected]> writes:
> the procedure (rationalize x1 x2) from (rnrs) takes a number x1 and
> returns the simplest rational that doesn't differ from x1 by more than
> x2. The implementation in guile has this behavior:
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (rationalize #e-0.67 1/4)
> $1 = -2/3
>
> The problem here is that -1/2 is simpler than -2/3 (since 1<2 and 2<3)
> and it also doesn't differ from #e-0.67 by more than 1/4 (even though
> the difference is larger than for -2/3, it is still less than 1/4). So
> the result from the expression above should be -1/2.
Fixed in 620c13e8fc02060e0af8fa38398ee4de745d41e9.
Thanks!
Mark
