On Oct 29, 10:00 am, Francogrex <······@grex.org> wrote:
> How to handle the floating-point-inexact thing? For example:
> (log (expt 22.78 53))
> #<a FLOATING-POINT-INEXACT>
> I read it's implementation dependent, I use ECL but when I searched I
> couldn't find a way to fix this. This comes up in a program I've
> written and I need to use the values. Even if I truncate the 22.78
> then I'll have an overflow instead... Thanks
The best fix is to not write formulas that overflow:
(* 53 (log 22.78))
165.6718