[r6rs-discuss] expt and exactness

[Michael Sperber]

"Eric Knauel" <knauel at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> Reading v5.97 today, I got a bit confused about the exactness of expt:
> Section 11.7.1 lists `expt' among the procedures that must return an exact
> result if all arguments are exact. Two paragraphs later, however, the text
> lists `expt' among the procedures which may return inexact results even if
> given exact arguments.
>
> In fact, the the exactness of expt's return value depends on the types of the
> arguments---according to the definition.  I think that it is confusing to
> list `expt' among the procedures that *must* return exact results, since the
> wording suggests that the procedures listed compute exact results under all
> circumstances.

Indeed.  Will fix.  Thanks!

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