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Arithmetic issues
Michael Sperber
(18 Oct 2005 06:03 UTC)
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Re: Arithmetic issues
felix winkelmann
(18 Oct 2005 07:00 UTC)
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Re: Arithmetic issues
John.Cowan
(18 Oct 2005 17:36 UTC)
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Re: Arithmetic issues
Aubrey Jaffer
(19 Oct 2005 18:13 UTC)
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Re: Arithmetic issues John.Cowan (19 Oct 2005 18:21 UTC)
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Re: Arithmetic issues
bear
(18 Oct 2005 19:52 UTC)
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Re: Arithmetic issues
John.Cowan
(18 Oct 2005 21:12 UTC)
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Re: Arithmetic issues
bear
(19 Oct 2005 02:13 UTC)
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Re: Arithmetic issues
John.Cowan
(19 Oct 2005 02:19 UTC)
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Re: Arithmetic issues
bear
(19 Oct 2005 03:23 UTC)
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Re: Arithmetic issues
Andre van Tonder
(19 Oct 2005 11:47 UTC)
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Re: Arithmetic issues
Aubrey Jaffer
(19 Oct 2005 14:14 UTC)
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Re: Arithmetic issues
Andre van Tonder
(19 Oct 2005 16:00 UTC)
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Re: Arithmetic issues John.Cowan 19 Oct 2005 18:21 UTC
Aubrey Jaffer scripsit:
> In twos-complement fixnums there is one more negative number than
> there are positive numbers.
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> Thus (abs most-negative-fixnum) and (- most-negative-fixnum) can only
> return a bignum: (+ 1 most-positive-fixnum)
Ah. However, I favor signaling fixnum operations, in which case (fxabs
smallest-fixnum) should signal an error.
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