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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
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Subject: Re: Numbers in Lisp (was: macros vs HOFs)
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* Kaz Kylheku
| Thus for instance (/ 4.0 2.0) produces 2.0, not 2. Whereas (floor 4.3)
| yields 4. No problem there.

  Just for completeness, tangential to your point: We have `ffloor´ etc.

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