[racket] Multiplying by 0

No, it's not a bug.  Since 1e100 is an inexact number, there's
uncertainty about the minimum of those two numbers, and the result is
therefore inexact.

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Gregory Woodhouse <gregwoodhouse at me.com> wrote:
> Oops... Now that has to qualify as a bug.
>
> On Feb 14, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Joe Marshall wrote:
>
>> 2011/2/13 José Lopes <jose.lopes at ist.utl.pt>:
>>> I understand. However, not only that disregards type promotion but also is
>>> incoherent since (+ 0 0.0) evaluates to 0.0.
>>
>> Worse:
>> (min 0 1e100) => 0.0
>>
>> --
>> ~jrm
>
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