Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> guile> (define x (* 123123123123123123 100))
> guile> x
> 12312312312312312300
> guile> (set! x (+ x 12))
> guile> x
> 12312312312312312312
> guile> (set! x (/ x 100))
> guile> x
> 3078078078078078078/25 ;; this is wrong!
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Hi,
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>> guile> 123123123123123123.12
>> 123123123123123000.0
>
> I think it's been truncated to 53 bits for the mantissa of a double.
Right, the value can't actually fit into a double and reals in Guile
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
> guile> 123123123123123123.12
> 123123123123123000.0
I think it's been truncated to 53 bits for the mantissa of a double.
(Unless you mean the rounding went the wrong way or something.)
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Guile-devel
Hi,
Before I forget about it, I noticed a bug with large fractions. It
shows up in the following example:
guile> 123123123123123123.12
123123123123123000.0
A quick look at numbers.c:mem2decimal_from_point, and then trying to
re-execute the algorithm in there by hand shows that this is
