On 16/06/2021 15:52, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
I am also a bit intrigued by this. Like you said: several other programming languages (I tried a couple of Common Lisp and Scheme implementations) do the same as Pharo, but handheld calculators, normal and scientific, do not.
Handheld calculators use decimal floats, not binary floats. That doesn't remove rounding issues, but it makes conversion to and from print representations loss-free.
Konrad
