Thanks!

On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 1:25 PM Bradley Lucier <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/5/22 12:50 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> >
> > Someone should cross-check division.txt against the SRFI text.  to make
> > sure there are no other such accidental discrepancies.  Special scrutiny
> > should be given to the "balanced" procedures, which are not present in
> > division.txt, but correspond to the R6RS div0, mod0, and div-and-mod0
> > procedures.
>
> I'm not a great proofreader, but I compared the SRFI document to
> Taylor's original.
>
> Typos:
>
> 1.  First paragraph of specification, change
>
> "Each division operator pair is specified by defining the quotient q in
> terms of the numerator a and the denominator n."
>
> to
>
> "Each division operator pair is specified by defining the quotient q in
> terms of the numerator n and the denominator d."
>
> 2.  In discussion of ceiling/, etc., change <numerator> to italic
> "numerator".
>
> 3.  In discussion of truncate/, etc., the sentence
>
>   However, by any non-unit denominator, the quotient of +1, 0, or -1 is
> 0; that is, three contiguous numerators by a common denominator share a
> common quotient.
>
> is clumsy at best, confusing at worst.  Perhaps
>
> With the truncate operator pair, the quotient of +1, 0, or -1 by any
> non-unit denominator is 0; that is, three contiguous numerators divided
> by a common denominator share a common quotient.
>
> That's all I got.
>
> Brad
>

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