"Eric Knauel" <knauel at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> Reading v5.97 today, I got a bit confused about the exactness of expt:
> Section 11.7.1 lists `expt' among the procedures that must return an exact
> result if all arguments are exact. Two paragraphs later, however, the text
> lists `expt' among the procedures which may return inexact results even if
> given exact arguments.
>
> In fact, the the exactness of expt's return value depends on the types of the
> arguments---according to the definition. I think that it is confusing to
> list `expt' among the procedures that *must* return exact results, since the
> wording suggests that the procedures listed compute exact results under all
> circumstances.
Indeed. Will fix. Thanks!
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Cheers =8-} M.
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Received on Mon Aug 27 2007 - 11:17:37 UTC