Then this does not work well (fold min (inf) (list 1 2000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 3 4))
which is a pity, we should have an exact inf as well On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 10:32 AM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 10:15:30AM +0200, Stefan Israelsson Tampe wrote: > > Why is (min (inf) 1) = 1.0 inexact? > > Because inf's result is inexact. The same as (min 3 3.5) is inexact, > too. > > It seems that the `inexactness' is contagious across arithmetic > generics (I haven't found an explicit place in the Guile docs; > the racket docs are more explicit about that). > > Cheers > - t >
