[Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] float to bfloat



Greetings!

Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> writes:

> >>>>> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com> writes:
> 
>     Camm> I don't think this is the case:
> 
> My apologies.  I didn't test it.  I used to have problems with gcl's
> float reader/printer, but I guess you've fixed those.  Nice!
> 
>     Camm> OK, will consider after Stavros gets a chance to look into things next
>     Camm> week.  Thanks again to all!
> 
> FWIW, I ran your test function on cmucl.  It passes the test case
> (test-f 1d0 10).  Also, there were a couple of minor bugs.  float
> should take the 2nd arg, otherwise it converts to single-float be
> default.  This was messing up cmucl. :-)
> 

Thanks.  Just a clarification here, this test also passes with GCL's
current rationalize, just not (yet) with the proposed improved one.

Take care,

> (defun test-f (x i)
>   (multiple-value-bind
>       (q r s)
>       (integer-decode-float x)
>     (format t "~S~%" x)
>     (and (eql x (float (* q (expt 2 r)) x))
>          (eql (float (rationalize x) x) x)
>          (if (> i 0)
>              (test-f (float (* (+ q 1) (expt 2 r)) x) (- i 1))
>              t))))
> 
> Ray
> 
> 
> 
> 

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