Does it? Even for integral arguments (i.e. where the internal datatype 
guarantees that the numbers are whole)? 

Any idea why? How did you discover this conversion?

-Dan

Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device.

On Sep 15, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yep.  Put an 'x' behind or a 'x:' in front.
> 
> Note, also, that x: in front generates a floating point representation
> of the number as an intermediate result.  This would be good in
> contexts where too much precision was undesirable (where we think of
> it as noise), and bad in contexts where the precision represented
> meaningful information.
> 
> -- 
> Raul
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