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6.2 Numbers
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* Numerical types
* Exactness
* Implementation restrictions
* Syntax of numerical constants
* Numerical operations
* Numerical input and output
Numerical computation has traditionally been neglected by the Lisp
community. Until Common Lisp there was no carefully thought out
strategy for organizing numerical computation, and with the exception of
the MacLisp system [Pitman83] little effort was made to execute
numerical code efficiently. This report recognizes the excellent work
of the Common Lisp committee and accepts many of their recommendations.
In some ways this report simplifies and generalizes their proposals in
a manner consistent with the purposes of Scheme.
It is important to distinguish between the mathematical numbers, the
Scheme numbers that attempt to model them, the machine representations
used to implement the Scheme numbers, and notations used to write
numbers. This report uses the types number, complex, real, rational,
and integer to refer to both mathematical numbers and Scheme numbers.
Machine representations such as fixed point and floating point are
referred to by names such as fixnum and flonum.
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