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by anonzzzies 603 days ago
Besides his nick, was he smug? He just noted that Lisp(likes) solve this problem for some version of 'solve' with the numerical tower. The implementations don't (usually; I am not aware of any) mix exact and inexact as that would be foolish obviously.
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> Besides his nick, was he smug?

Saying, "That's nice." is a cliche condescension. You're free to disagree, but I think his intent was clear.

Ah, I did not read that into it. But guess that might be what he was doing.