[racket] numbers/bytes in r6rs

In racket you'd use this function, fwiw:

  (λ (n) (bytes-length (string->bytes/utf-8 (format "~s" n))))

(or possibly a variant of it depending on the encoding you were using).

Robby

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Wolfgang De Meuter <wdmeuter at vub.ac.be> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm struggling with chapter 2 of the R6RS libraries (relation between Scheme data objects and bytevectors). Does anyone know a clean&simple way for
> - determining the number of bytes needed to push an arbitrary-sized number in a bytevector;  (log nbr 256) is not good enough :-)
> - determining whether a floating point number is a double or a single.
>
> I guess that I must be lacking knowledge about some of the primitives.
>
> Thx
>
> Wolf
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