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Re: Bug with large fractions
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Bug with large fractions |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:52:44 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>> guile> 123123123123123123.12
>> 123123123123123000.0
>
> I think it's been truncated to 53 bits for the mantissa of a double.
Right, the value can't actually fit into a double and reals in Guile
_are_ double (it took me a while to get it... ;-)).
Thanks,
Ludovic.