On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Stephen Bloch <sbl...@adelphi.edu> wrote: > On Sep 1, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > >> The #i indicates inexactness as far as computer arithmetic is concerned, >> that is, what the so-called 'machine' level arithmetic supplies. > > And yet Scheme/Racket allows for inexact integers, whereas no computer I know > of has an inexact integer type supported at the machine level.
Huh? Any integer between -2^53 and 2^53 can be represented by a double-precision float. -- ~jrm _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
