[racket] Inconsistency of `in-range` and numerical issues

On 24/02/2015 17:04, Laurent wrote:

> Btw, the reason it outputs 8 in the bad case is because on my machine:
> (for/sum ([i 8]) .1) ; 0.7999999999999999
>
> which is then below the .8 threshold.

It's not just your machine. 0.1 = 1/10 does not have an exact 
representation as a binary floating-point number. It gets rounded to the 
nearest binary float value, which is smaller than 0.1. This is the 
correct behavior according to IEEE 754.

Konrad.