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Re: [Scheme-reports] Numerical example (real? -2.5+0.0i)



On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, John Cowan wrote:

> 0.0 just means a number x such that
> 0 < x < the smallest representable inexact number.

I think that's a contradiction in terms. :)  If inexact numbers like 0.0 
represent intervals, then the smallest representable inexact number is 
presumably also an interval, and cannot be the endpoint of an interval.

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