[gambit-list] Re: Implementation of read-ieee-float64

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Fri Dec 9 22:16:16 EST 2005


On 9-Dec-05, at 9:39 PM, Bradley Lucier wrote:

> Marc:
>
> I bit the bullet and did the optimal expt, you'll be amazed.

Hey... I'm always amazed when I read your code ;-)

>   It still is not tested extensively, but at least the code is  
> straightforward.  So now we have things like:
>
> > (##my-expt 8/27 1/3)
> 2/3
>
> In the process, I discovered that ##exact-int.nth-root was buggy as  
> hell and fixed it (and tested it).  I trust it now.
>
> The new routines begin with ##my-...
>
> If other people want to test ##my-expt, that would help.  Put it in  
> a sibling directory to the lib directory in the gambc40b15  
> directory to compile it.
>
> I removed srfi-56 and Alex Shinn from the CC list ;-).
>
> Brad
>
>
> <expt.scm>

Great!  In the meantime I will add "pow" to gambit.h so that  
##flonum.pow can be inlined.  Let me know when your testing is done.

Marc




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