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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: Exact (LISP-ish) calculations in Ruby?
From:       Aldric Giacomoni <aldric () trevoke ! net>
Date:       2009-11-18 18:14:22
Message-ID: 644ca0f34e33332c171dbb0bb960523b () ruby-forum ! com
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David Masover wrote:
>
> irb(main):002:0> Rational(3) / 4
> => (3/4)
> irb(main):003:0> Rational(3) / 4 / 12
> => (1/16)
> 
> I'm not sure about the rest of it, though it makes me wish I'd used Lisp 
> for a recent project.

In all fairness, I just fired up SLIME to check, and LISP's (sqrt 2) 
does come out to be an approximation, so I guess I want something cool 
like the HP-48 and HP-49's factoring power..
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