Dividing large values appears to go awry

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Scheme R7RS interpreter in Go

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Dividing large values appears to go awry #57

Open nlfiedler opened 9 years ago

nlfiedler commented 9 years ago

See the tests that attempt to use the squareRootSicp input program, which is a recursive definition of Newton's method for finding the square root. It produces an incorrect result in the form of a rational number, rather than an integer.