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short-float-negative-epsilon
- To: Guy.Steele@CMU-CS-A
- Subject: short-float-negative-epsilon
- From: David A. Moon <Moon%SCRC-TENEX@MIT-MC>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1983 21:20:00 -0000
- Cc: common-lisp%su-ai@su-score, Cassels%SCRC-TENEX@MIT-MC
- Mail-from: ARPANET site SU-AI rcvd at 30-Mar-83 1603-PST
Am I correct in guessing that the arguments to - in the Lisp-code definition
of short-float-negative-epsilon in the Laser edition are backwards? The
code as it stands is clearly bogus. If the arguments to - are backwards,
then negative-epsilon would be the smallest positive number that you
can subtract from 1.0 and get a different answer than 1.0.