[r6rs-discuss] The definition of flonum is in the wrong place

From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak>
Date: Mon Oct 9 01:43:28 2006

Aubrey Jaffer <agj_at_alum.mit.edu> writes:

> "NaN is not a real number" addresses this. NaN is not real, so it is
> an illegal argument to numerical order predicates.

This would be bad. It means that numerical inaccuracy may make a
comparison illegal. Please don't break IEEE rules.

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