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Re: guile guile-1.7.2-3 (cygwin)


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: guile guile-1.7.2-3 (cygwin)
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:20:09 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

Hello,

"Pach Roman (GS-EC/ESA4) *" <address@hidden> writes:

> guile> 11/3
> 11/3
> guile> (inexact->exact 11/3)
> 11/3
>
> At the same place the 1.6.7 version responces like that:
>
> guile> 11/3
> 3.66666666666667
> guile> (inexact->exact 11/3)
> 4

Guile 1.7 uses GNU MP (mathematical precision library) while previous
versions don't.  Most importantly, exact rationals were introduced in
Guile 1.7 (see the `NEWS' file in Guile 1.7).

Thanks,
Ludovic.





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