On 00:38 Sun 03 Jan , Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 10 is the real limit, and I agree it should be documented. Would you
> like to propose a patch?
Yes, I'll see to it :)
> Here, `truncate' is preferred because (floor -12.34) => -13.0.
good point :)
> Note, however, that usually it is better (less fiddly)
> to represent monetary values as integers.
yeah, I think I will use integers for such stuff in the future. my
monetary values usually don't exceed standard 32 bi
Hello all :)
I just found that guile does not like primitive procedures with a lot of
arguments.
ERROR in scm_c_make_gsubr: too many args (11) func
The (procedure-properties) show correct arities, e.g.
scm_c_define_gsubr(..., 9, 0, 0, ...) (arity 9 0 #f)
scm_c_d
Hej...
> > The actual result shoud be 34.
> That's one of the answers you will get if you use a computer to
> calculate the results.
... what every computer scientist should know about floating point
numbers... ;)
seems like I didn't think about it, sorry :)
the number in my example is in fact
Hej all :)
I'm a little confused by the results of (floor .) in a simple
computation to get the fractional part of a monetary value. Maybe
someone can comment on this, as especially in the last test case below
the results seem very strange to me...
The starting point is:
guile> (rationalize (flo
