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Tried Quux vindicated
- To: common-lisp at SU-AI
- Subject: Tried Quux vindicated
- From: Guy.Steele at CMU-10A
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1982 19:16:00 -0000
Hmm, I see... while REMAINDER and MOD are different in general, they
agree on what is zero. But in the presence of IEEE floating-point
arithmetic, perhaps (MOD -6.0 3.0) => 0.0 and (REMAINDER -6.0 3.0) => -0.0,
so I think I just barely wiggle out of that one. It's a pretty
flimsy argument.
(Yes, I was very tired.)