On Nov 18, 2011, at 2:34 PM, "Neil Toronto" <neil.toro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... I'd like to add exact-round, exact-floor, exact-truncate and > exact-ceiling. I rarely need to chop off fractional parts without also making > the result exact. That might be convenient, but it's philosophically dubious. Consider rounding the inexact value 5.49 plus or minus .05. Saying the answer is "exactly" 5 is claiming more certainty than you actually have: it might be 6. Stephen Bloch sbl...@adelphi.edu > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
