Comment on What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (1991) [pdf]parentComments−nxobject5moNot-so-coincidentally, Scheme specifies an exact rational number type. [0] This does not simplify things. [1][0] https://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo/doc/r5rs-9.html#Num...[1] https://www.deinprogramm.de/sperber/papers/numerical-tower.p...
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Not-so-coincidentally, Scheme specifies an exact rational number type. [0] This does not simplify things. [1]
[0] https://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo/doc/r5rs-9.html#Num...
[1] https://www.deinprogramm.de/sperber/papers/numerical-tower.p...