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weird math
- To: info-mcl@ministry.cambridge.apple.com
- Subject: weird math
- From: sr0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Ritter)
- Date: 25 Aug 93 22:09:36 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Organization: Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
According to my reading of CLtL2 (292-293), this should not happen:
? (= 1.4 (/ 7 5))
NIL
Especially since:
? (= 1.4 (coerce (/ 7 5) 'float))
T
This isn't a general bug because:
? (= 1.5 (/ 3 2))
T
This is the kind of bug that can shake your faith in the truth and
purity of mathematics.
I'm using MCL 2.0p2
Steve