On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 12:15:27PM -0700, Joe Marshall wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Stephen Bloch <sbl...@adelphi.edu> wrote: > > On Sep 1, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > > >> The #i indicates inexactness as far as computer arithmetic is concerned, > >> that is, what the so-called 'machine' level arithmetic supplies. > > > > And yet Scheme/Racket allows for inexact integers, whereas no computer I > > know of has an inexact integer type supported at the machine level. > > Huh? Any integer between -2^53 and 2^53 can be represented by a > double-precision float.
And others can be represented approximately by a double-precision float. -- hendrik _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
