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- From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
- Subject: Re: Why is the exact/inexact distinction built into Scheme?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.225339.18315@netcom.com>
- Organization: International Foundation for Internal Freedom
- References: <1992Nov17.182740.11194@cs.brown.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:53:39 GMT
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- On a related topic, are there any Schemes which use fixed-point
- reals instead of the machine's native floating point gear?
- Such a real would, of course, be exact.
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- Lance Norskog
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- Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.
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