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Re: weird math
- To: sr0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Ritter)
- Subject: Re: weird math
- From: kab (Kim Barrett)
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 19:18:12 EST
- Cc: info-mcl@ministry.cambridge.apple.com
> According to my reading of CLtL2 (292-293), this should not happen:
> ? (= 1.4 (/ 7 5))
> NIL
Check the top of p.290, which discusses issue
CONTAGION-ON-NUMERICAL-COMPARISONS:TRANSITIVE. I guess Guy was a little bit
lazy in finding the places affected by that change. There really ought to be
some mention of it in section 12.3.