[racket] What is inexactness about?

From: Noel Welsh (noelwelsh at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 1 09:29:07 EDT 2010

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Stephen Bloch <sbloch at adelphi.edu> wrote:
irrational.  Likewise,
>
> The question is under what circumstances (if any) you would want to mark something as inexact that DIDN'T come from an irrational-valued library function or constant.
>

Speed, speed, speed, and more speed. Some simple code I have has a
2.5x speedup when switching from exact to inexact arithmetic.

N.


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