On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 1:00 AM, John Clements <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Examining the difference between Inexact-Real and Float yields this:
>
>> (:type Float)
> (U Float-Positive-Zero Float-Negative-Zero Float-Nan Positive-Float 
> Negative-Float)
>> (:type Inexact-Real)
> (U Float-Positive-Zero Float-Negative-Zero Float-Nan Positive-Float 
> Negative-Float Single-Flonum-Positive-Zero Single-Flonum-Negative-Zero 
> Single-Flonum-Nan Positive-Single-Flonum Negative-Single-Flonum)
>
> ...which actually made me laugh out loud.  Is there a predicate I can use 
> instead of 'inexact-real?' that checks whether a number belongs to the type 
> Float?

You can use `flonum?' as the predicate for `Float', which excludes
single-precision floats.  But why do you want to exclude them?
-- 
sam th
[email protected]

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