[R6RS] proposing ten procedures

Michael Sperber sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Thu Jul 20 12:32:45 EDT 2006


William D Clinger <will at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> What the reference implementation needs is the ability to extract
> sign, numerators, and denominators from inexact reals, which need
> not correspond to any IEEE representation.

How realistic is doing `flonum->rational' and `number->string'
efficiently without assuming IEEE 754?

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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