Comment 12 for bug 180170

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Jens Axel Søgaard (soegaard) wrote : Re: [Bug 180170] Re: Missing bignum sqrt

Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2008, at 7:56 AM, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:
>
>> Except Chez Petite:
>
> Didn't I tell you before that I would bet my life on Chez? Now you
> should believe me.
>

Brad Lucier found the following example:

80:~/Scheme soegaard$ petite
Petite Chez Scheme Version 7.3
Copyright (c) 1985-2006 Cadence Research Systems

 > (sqrt (+ 1 (expt 5/2 1400)))
3.614149143438584e278

80:~/Scheme soegaard$ ikarus
Ikarus Scheme version 0.0.2patched+ (revision 1330, build 2008-01-05)
Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Abdulaziz Ghuloum

 > (sqrt (+ 1 (expt 5/2 1400)))
+inf.0

Tricky.

/Jens Axel