[r6rs-discuss] Two questions about writing inexact numbers

[Michael Sperber]

Alan Watson <alan at alan-watson.org> writes:

> If I mean "I want to be able to write a flonum on one implementation and 
> guarantee (within range restrictions) that it will be read as a flonum 
> on any other implementation", then I need to be able to write a flonum 
> using an e exponent and no explicit mantissa precision. I do not think 
> the standard gives me an easy way to do this. I believe I have to write 
> my own number->string (possibly on top of the standard version).

I believe you're right.

> Question: Is flonum? a "standard arithmetic procedure"?

Yes.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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