[racket] Multiplying by 0

I see your point.

On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:

> 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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