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Issue: EXPT-RATIO (Version 1)
- To: Moon@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM
- Subject: Issue: EXPT-RATIO (Version 1)
- From: Jon L White <jonl@lucid.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 88 16:09:00 PDT
- Cc: CL-Cleanup@sail.stanford.edu, JGA@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM, Cassels@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM
- In-reply-to: David A. Moon's message of Tue, 4 Oct 88 15:14 EDT <19881004191447.6.MOON@EUPHRATES.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Lucid implements the proposal -- namely (expt x 3/2) is about -1, modulo
roundoff. [Incidentally, the "roundoff" problem means that the result
is a complex number with a rather small imaginary part.]
-- JonL --