Re: [ clisp-Bugs-441525 ] Numeric error

[Pierpaolo B. <ber...@cl...>]

> Running the example (attached) from Paul Graham, "ANSI 
> Common Lisp", Fig. 13.2 (p. 221) gives the wrong 
> result:
>   Real time: 2.153 sec.
>   Run time: 2.153096 sec.
>   Space: 0 Bytes
>   131072.0s0
> 
> The result should be 1000000.0.  Running the same 
> example in Xanalys LispWorks Personal Edition 4.1.20 
> gives the correct result.

The bug is in the book.  It uses 1s0 instead of 1f0.

In LW it works, by chance, because LW has only one numeric type,
which corresponds in precision to Clisp's DOUBLE-FLOAT.

P.