Re: [CLN-list] Anomaly when integer zero combined with extended float.

On 9/6/06, Richard B. Kreckel <kreckel@ginac.de> wrote: <snip>

What really happens is that CLN detects that the result is an exact zero and represents it exactly as an integer, not as a floating point number.

You may easily convince yourself about this by checking the return value of instanceof(r, cl_I_ring).

Thanks for pointing this out. I need to modify my code to handle this special case correctly. As long as the result will be used in further CLN calculations, this return value is useful. However, once I translate it to a Python type, it needs to be a floating point value with the precision of the other operand.