2ARITHMETIC AND OTHER NUMERICAL PARAPHERNALIA
In this chapter, we’ll take a look at the rich set of numerical data types that Racket provides. We’ll discover the expected integer and floating-point values, but we’ll also learn that Racket supports rational (or fractional) values along with complex numbers (don’t worry if you don’t know what complex numbers are; they are not heavily used in this text, but we take a brief look for those that may be interested).
Booleans
Booleans are true and false values, and while they aren’t strictly numbers, they behave a bit like numbers in that they can be combined by various operators to produce other Boolean ...
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