Re: numerical conditioning MAGNITUDE and /
John Cowan 21 Jun 2006 13:37 UTC
William D Clinger scripsit:
> No. Neither mandates that inexact reals be represented as
> binary floating point, or that inexact reals follow the IEEE
> standards for binary floating point, or that implementations
> of the standard procedures be of high quality.
This leads me to the question of how a system can comply with this
SRFI if it has neither flonum hardware nor the space for flonum
emulation. AFAICT the minimum set of flonums required by the
SRFI is {0.0}.
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