simple float numbers problem

[Christopher A. Craig]

"Ladvánszky Károly" <aa at bb.cc> writes:

> Lisp does the right thing:
> (= (+ 10 15.99) 25.99)
> T
> 
> Does Lisp not use the math processor?

I don't know which Lisp you're speaking of here, but chances are very
good that 15.99 is not a float in this particular lisp.  I'd guess
it's probably rational.  You can do that with Python if you get a
rational library such as the one I mentioned in my previous post to
this thread.  The problem is that rationals are notoriously slow.  If
you tried to implement

a = 0
for i in range(1,5000):
  a += 1./i

in this lisp, and I'm right, it should take longer than Python (but
will give the "right" answer instead of Python's approximate one)

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