[r6rs-discuss] Two questions about writing inexact numbers

From: Michael Sperber <sperber>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:40:10 +0200

Alan Watson <alan at alan-watson.org> writes:

> If I mean "I want to be able to write a flonum on one implementation and
> guarantee (within range restrictions) that it will be read as a flonum
> on any other implementation", then I need to be able to write a flonum
> using an e exponent and no explicit mantissa precision. I do not think
> the standard gives me an easy way to do this. I believe I have to write
> my own number->string (possibly on top of the standard version).

I believe you're right.

> Question: Is flonum? a "standard arithmetic procedure"?

Yes.

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