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@settitle MIT Scheme User's Manual
Getting efficient flonum arithmetic is much more complicated and harder
than getting efficient fixnum arithmetic.
-@subsubheading{Flonum consing}
+@subsubheading Flonum consing
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@cindex flonum consing
One of the main disadvantages of generic arithmetic is that not all
kinds of number fit in a machine register.
or calls to procedures then the values tend to get boxed anyway.
-@subsubheading{Flonum vectors}
+@subsubheading Flonum vectors
Flonum vectors are vectors which contain only floating point values, in
much the same way as a string is a `vector' containing only character
-@subsubheading{Common pitfalls}
+@subsubheading Common pitfalls
Pitfall 1:
Make sure that your literals are floating point constants: