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Re: [Scheme-reports] Padding/placeholders (hashes) in numerical syntax
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- Subject: Re: [Scheme-reports] Padding/placeholders (hashes) in numerical syntax
- From: Peter Bex <Peter.Bex@x>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:29:33 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 01:22:34AM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote:
> I'd like to hear from someone who knows the history
> better, but I believe it's intended more as write syntax
> than read - when someone asks for more digits of
> precision than are available, the remainder use "#".
How does that work? AFAIK there's no way to specify how many
digits of precision you want, using standard procedures at
least...
Cheers,
Peter
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