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floating point question
- To: David Bein <pyramid!bein@SRI-UNIX.ARPA>
- Subject: floating point question
- From: David A. Moon <Moon@SCRC-STONY-BROOK.ARPA>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 86 20:17 EST
- Cc: common-lisp@SU-AI.ARPA
- In-reply-to: <506559328/bein@pyramid>
Floating-point arithmetic is never exact, so I don't think it's any
more surprising if (= 0.0 1/123456789123456789123456789123456789)
than if (= 1.0 (+ 1.0 1e-10)).