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Re: [Chicken-users] Problems with rationals
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Peter Bex |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Problems with rationals |
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Mon, 9 Apr 2012 22:12:29 +0200 |
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On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 09:00:10PM +0100, Mark Carter wrote:
> Is this a bug in chicken?
> (rational? 6/10) => #f
Chicken by itself doesn't support ratnums. You'll need the
"numbers" egg to get the full numeric tower (including arbitrarily
large numbers and complex numbers).
> Also
> (* 1.0 5/2)
> produces
> Error: (*) bad argument type: 5/2
If I want to reproduce this, do I need to type in anything else?
It doesn't happen here.
Cheers,
Peter
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Re: [Chicken-users] Problems with rationals, Thomas Chust, 2012/04/09