Re: Questions about floating numbers and call-with-current-continuation

[Keith Wright]

> From: Ying Luo <address@hidden>
> 
> I have some question about floating numbers in guile-1.4,
> which has annoyed me for quite a few times :(
> 
> Below is listed two of  the commands I typed in and got incorrect
> results:
> guile> (truncate (* 2127.7 100))
> 212769.0
> guile> (zero? (- 264 (* 2.64 100)))
> #f

This is how it is with binary floating point, it has
nothing much to do with Guile.  You need to sign up
for Numerical Analysis 101.  If you want exact results,
you don't use floating point.

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