Re: [q-lang-users] [Chicken-users] Re: IEEE float arithmetic

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> But you want the code at least not to do any harm on systems with _no_ 
> IEEE floats. I'm not sure, but couldn't dividing by 0.0 on such systems 
> kill your program with SIGFPE?

I don't know.  I've never done serious floating-point work that
had to run on a non-IEEE system (everything I did on a PDP-8, PDP-11,
or pre-IEEE VAX was pretty much either integer-only or floats-as-integers,
as in most Basics).

> Another point is that division is a much more costly operation than 
> adding and subtracting.

True.

> BTW, should I cc the Chicken list in this thread?

Might as well, though your postings might or might not go through.

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