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Floating point arithmetics (eviltoast.org)

submitted 1 year ago by orhtej2@eviltoast.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes. Have a structure with 2 BigInts. Treat one as the numerator. The other as denominators.

It might not be efficient or fast. But it is possible.

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

You are proposing that can represent the entire rational set?

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago*

Yes that is correct. A BigInt represents the entire integer set.

Rational numbers are defined by just 2 integers. Therefore, 2 BigInts represent the entire rational set.

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