[racket-dev] Sublinear functions of superfloat numbers

2012-06-30 Thread Neil Toronto
I've noticed something interesting about the `log' function. Check out this interaction: (real-double-flonum #e1e400) +inf.0 (log #e1e400) 921.0340371976183 It's obviously not just converting to flonum first; it's likely doing some kind of argument reduction internally. `sqrt' operates on

[racket-dev] Using licensed code

2012-06-30 Thread Neil Toronto
I'm cribbing from the Boost C++ libraries [*] for much of the `math' collection. The license is extremely liberal, requiring only that the text of the license be included in any source distribution. What's the protocol for this? FWIW, the FSF says Boost libraries and works derived from it can

Re: [racket-dev] Using licensed code

2012-06-30 Thread Eli Barzilay
Three hours ago, Neil Toronto wrote: I'm cribbing from the Boost C++ libraries [*] for much of the `math' collection. The license is extremely liberal, requiring only that the text of the license be included in any source distribution. What's the protocol for this? To be compatible with the