Harvey
Reputation: 5821
How do I get mit-scheme to return a floating point number?
(/ 4 3) returns 4/3 as an answer. What is the simplest way to get 1.3...?
Upvotes: 15
Views: 5927
Answers (2)
Kyle Cronin
Reputation: 79143
An easy way would be to make sure that one of the numbers in the calculation is already a floating-point number:
> (/ 4.0 3)
1.3333333333333333
Another way would be to use exact->inexact:
> (exact->inexact (/ 4 3))
1.3333333333333333
Upvotes: 27
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