Subject: Re: why no big-float? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1996/04/09 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.lisp.mcl Message-ID: <3038075592819373@arcana.naggum.no> [Dave Yost] | We have bignum. Why don't we have big-float? : | Has anyone implemented big-float? CLISP has this. $ clisp > (list (lisp-implementation-type) (lisp-implementation-version)) ("CLISP" "1996-03-15 (March 1996)") > (/ 7l0) 0.14285714285714285714L0 > (float-digits *) 64 > (setf (long-float-digits) 128) 128 > (/ 7l0) 0.142857142857142857142857142857142857143L0 > (float-digits *) 128 > (quit) it is not exactly well documented, but pretty much what you outlined. #<Erik> -- education is for people who can't handle reality the hard way