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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Numerical gotcha's
Keywords: Interval-Arithmetic Bignums Rationals
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Date: 23 Nov 90 04:58:47 GMT
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Here are various results on a Symbolics 3600 running Genera 8.0.  The "d"
is the double-precision exponent indicator, and "e" is the single-precision
exponent indicator.

Command: (f 77617d0 33096d0)
-1.1805916207174113d21
Command: (f 77617e0 33096e0)
6.338253e29
Command: (f 77617 33096)
-54767/66192
Command: (f 77617 33096e0)
6.338253e29
Command: (f 77617e0 33096)
-6.338253e29
Command: (f 77617d0 33096)
-2.3611832414348226d21
Command: (f 77617d0 33096e0)
1.022335026998684d30
Command: (f 77617e0 33096d0)
-2.0895373854550075d29
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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