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another dumb question about numbers

To: rrrs-authors
Subject: another dumb question about numbers
From: hal (Hal Abelson)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 89 17:57:49 est
Reply-To: hal@zurich.ai.mit.edu


Why not have round, floor, ceiling, and truncate produce exact
integers, and provide some other names for the analogous (more
primitive?) operations that do not force exactness?

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