On 5/20/05, Richard Fateman wrote:
> This does get back to the issue of how to interface with Common Lisp
> numbers.
> ...
We could have a program that attempts to common-lispify all
> possible numbers, and then do arithmetic using the common-lisp
> programs like sin, cos, ..=20
Yes, this is a possible approach, but of course it doesn't help with bfloat,
complexes, intervals, numbers with differentials ("automatic
differentiation"), and other types of quasi-number.
-s