Alastair Reid ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Are you reporting a bug in Hugs or asking us to debug your code?
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I think it's a bug.
Main> :version
-- Hugs Version February 2001
Main> asin (-2 / 2.0)
-1.5708
Main> norm (b, a) * norm (b, c)
2.0
Main> asin (-2 / (norm (b, a) * norm (b, c)))
nan.0
where a = (1,0); b = (0,1); c = (1,2)
norm ((x1, y1), (x2, y2)) = sqrt ((x1 - x2)^2 + (y1 - y2)^2)
It /looks/ like a bug to me, but there may be some mysterious deep
number magic I missed which explains this behaviour.
-Adrian
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