[racket] Multiplying by 0

From: Joe Marshall (jmarshall at alum.mit.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 14 18:11:06 EST 2011

> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> No, it's not a bug.  Since 1e100 is an inexact number, there's
>> uncertainty about the minimum of those two numbers,

> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Joe Marshall <jmarshall at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> So could a conforming implementation return 1e100 as the answer?
>> (min 0 1e100) => 1e100

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>  The R6RS spec is not totally clear on this point, but I don't think it allows that.

That doesn't sound like uncertainty to me.

-- 
~jrm



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