Re: My suggestions to the R6RS committee about numerics
Thomas Bushnell BSG 03 Jun 2005 02:10 UTC
"Chongkai Zhu" <xxxxxx@citiz.net> writes:
> What if we know (exactly) a number is an imaginary number, but only
> know ineaxtly it's magnitude? "0+1.0i" seems nature.
Yes, but Scheme doesn't provide this. Scheme's numeric system doesn't
allow for "partial exactness". It's not special for complex numbers;
the same could be true for rationals: what if the numerator is known
exactly, and the denominator inexactly?
Thomas