The proper way to handle this would, as you suggest, be to distinguish different kinds on infinities. Then, perhaps, countable infinity could be regarded as scheme:ish exact while infinities of higher cardinality would not (since scheme's handling of that kind of numbers is an approximation and, thus, not exact).
Then this does not work well
(fold min (inf) (list 1 2000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 3 4))
which is a pity, we should have an exact inf as well
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 10:15:30AM +0200, Stefan Israelsson Tampe wrote:
> Why is (min (inf) 1) = 1.0 inexact?
Because inf's result is inexact. The same as (min 3 3.5) is inexact,
too.
It seems that the `inexactness' is contagious across arithmetic
generics (I haven't found an explicit place in the Guile docs;
the racket docs are more explicit about that).
Cheers
- t