Re: Bug in Guile

[Rob Browning]

Dr William Bland <address@hidden> writes:

> I have found what appears to be a bug in Guile's reading of large
> integers.  If I try the expression in the email included below in Guile
> 1.4, I get +#.#.  This has also been tried on Guile 1.6.2 and that gives
> an error (see the email below).

Hmm.  And 1.7 gives us:

guile> (sqrt 
20740119327258723760276023509063017138455993606274883526731955113241109007354362374128996096291046353572306742110305456946824862203867115042369878729703475765112280167498189046437794602966168812419423365196979669431929588951126804648743029387833666031765734337165949634731375592471670294246180877815104812674626967450097045005117546657068700545263064105024888769118032059917845867653040419404003684559882509195398630922824050405379620513589699993980205694266973236095772153476388267418476533663512746243310317853861946430053072890502949319703765023792161144942611323629444409600173894963797156859916567288947565058003)
+inf.0
guile>

I'll add it to my list of things to look in to.  Now with GMP, we can
do a lot better than that.

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Rob Browning
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