Re: [Chicken-users] Rational numbers not working as expected

[Nick Vaughn]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Nick,

On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 13:58:48 -1000 Nick Vaughn <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm having fun learning scheme using chicken.   Looking at the
> manual, I see that there is deviation from the R5RS standard in
> that numerator and denominator procedures cannot be applied to
> inexact numbers.  But I can't figure out how to make an exact
> rational. Tried (/ 6 4) and 6/4, but neither works.
>...

You probably need the numbers egg: http://wiki.call-cc.org/egg/numbers

  $ chicken-install numbers
  $ csi
  #;1> (use numbers)
  ...


Best wishes.
Mario
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http://parenteses.org/mario

 

That fixed it.  Thanks Mario!

-Nick