From: CoRey

Subject: Subscribe

Date: 1998-3-21 19:42

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I would like to subscribe to the ACL mailing list...

I had a problem with ACL -- I had a routine pi-sum which I adapted from
'structure and implementation of computer programs' (covers MIT Scheme)
but the function returns a really large rational a/b where a and b
are bignums.  I tried (float a/b) on it, but it said that a was too big
to be represented as a single float--I want the floating point approximation
of a/b, but it looks like it it figuring out the float representation of
a first then b then dividing.  Is there a rational->float function somewhere
that would help me?

Corey Carroll <omega.uta.edu at cjc9024>