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Re: [f-cpu] Re: Floating-Point?

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Subject: Re: [f-cpu] Re: Floating-Point?
From: Michael Riepe <michael@stud.uni-hannover.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:15:28 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <0CFA3081B86BD311B37A00902762718F0152F02A@po1-exch.lon.tudor.com>; from Hans Summers on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:16:44PM +0100
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:16:44PM +0100, Hans Summers wrote:
[...]
> There are also lots of numbers which can't be encoded into BCD values, e.g.
> 1/3, 1/7 etc.

That's why LISP has bignums and the `rational' data type :)

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