On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:41:48PM -0500, Sam Griff wrote: > I'm running the Windows build of 5.0.2 on 32bit Windows 7 and I've run into > the following issues with sine and cosine. Here is a paste of my interaction > with Racket: ... ... > > Granted it is a very small amount to be off by and I doubt it's throwing off > my answers at all (working on exercise 27.1.4) just thought you should be > aware of it.
Welcome to floating-point arithmetic. I once had a machine in which cos(0) was equal to 1, but cos(0) squared was unequal to 1 squared. -- hendrik _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
