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Floating point arithmetics (eviltoast.org)
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[–] 15 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

Cause fractions can be figured out in context. You can store the numerators and have the denominator as a constant in the code.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You can also have a type which does it. Raku has a Rational type for this.

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