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Jonathan Borden scripsit: > to be practical, if your measurement error is much greater than the > possible roundoff error you are ok. if you need to completely avoid > roundoff error, then you generally convert the problem to integer (e.g. > bigint) and deal with the radii (plural of radix?) and moduli. then > there's the lispish way of dealing with this problem, which is to return > a formulaic expression that can be evaluated by the client to get the > desired result :-) Common Lisp and Scheme have a fraction datatype, which often does what's needed in these case. 2 divided by 3 is 2/3, not 0, not 0.666666666666667. -- John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com jcowan@r... All "isms" should be "wasms". --Abbie
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