[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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