Summary

numbers egg comparison of a bignum & a flonum can be incorrect

Metadata

• Id: 5c2c4352d4d7b3ca2906bbc10ccaed119605a12c
• Trac id: 76
• Type: defect
• Reporter: kon
• Owner:
• Cc:
• Status: closed
• Component: extensions
• Estimated difficulty:
• Resolution: fixed
• Priority: major
• Milestone:
• Version: 4.2.x
• Changetime: 2010-03-22 12:10:30 UTC
• Created: 2009-09-23 21:15:48 UTC
• Keywords:

Description

(< 1237940039285380274899124223 1237940039285380274899124224.0) ;=> #t

but

(< 1237940039285380274899124224.0 1237940039285380274899124225) ;=> #f

This is caused by using the flonum domain for all comparisons involving bignums.

(exact->inexact 1237940039285380274899124225) ;=> 1237940039285380274899124224.0

Changes and comments

[2010-03-22 12:10:30 UTC] sjamaan changed status from new to closed

[2010-03-22 12:10:30 UTC] sjamaan set resolution to fixed

[2010-03-22 12:10:30 UTC] sjamaan wrote:

Please try out the latest release (2.0). This bug is fixed there.