> John Cowan wrote: > That's what is so excellent about the R6RS definition. 0/0 is > undefined because any number times 0 is 0, and so a NaN is a maximally > inexact number: it could be any real number or even +inf or -inf.
On 6/22/07, Thomas Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's wrong. NaN is not an interval. > > All normal floating point numbers are intervals. That's wrong (and a common misconception). All normal floating point numbers are exact rational numbers. While it is true that there are intervals on the real number line where every real in the interval maps to the same floating point number, the floating point number itself is just a rational. -- ~jrm _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
