Double -> CDouble, realToFrac doesn't work
Keith Wansbrough
Keith.Wansbrough at cl.cam.ac.uk
Fri Nov 5 07:53:12 EST 2004
> > Denorms are handled fine by ordinary Rationals, but collapsing all NaNs
> > down to 0:%0 is not necessarily the right thing to do.
>
> Yep. Given
> a % b == c % d iff a*d == b*c
>
> then 0 % 0 is equivalent to each other rational. :-)
Ah! Not very good.
But that wasn't what I meant.
There's not just *one* NaN - there are 2^53 - 2 distinct ones. In
fact they all get treated identically, but the bit-patterns are
distinct.
--KW 8-)
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