id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	difficulty
1418	#e1e500 is not exact (numbers egg, possibly Chicken 5 as well)	johnwcowan		"Per R5RS and later standards, `#e1e500` is the same as 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000.

But this is not so in Chicken, which treats `#e` the same as calling `inexact->exact`, and so returns `+inf.0`, which is neither exact nor correct.  When `#e` is present, the result needs to be computed by bignum/ratio arithmetic, even if what follows is a decimal fraction.
"	defect	closed	major	5.0	unknown	4.12.0	invalid