Re: Numeric tower and Java's math library

2008-12-22 Thread Mark H.
On Dec 22, 8:08 am, Stuart Sierra wrote: > Yeah, I love (expt 2 64) as a Common Lisp parlor trick.  I've thought > about trying to write a Clojure "pow", but I don't know enough about > the algorithms involved.  How do you compute something like 25/9 to > the power of 3/2? That's much harder tha

Re: Numeric tower and Java's math library

2008-12-22 Thread Stuart Sierra
On Dec 22, 7:14 am, "Mark Engelberg" wrote: > Is there any kind of math library that works a bit more intelligently > with Clojure's numbers, or has anyone looked at bringing more of these > math functions into the Clojure core or contrib so that these > functions will dispatch correctly? Yeah,