Aug. 1, 2001
12:01 p.m.
[Marc]
Decimals are just a different way of displaying Rationals and depending on their preset precision show a different behaviour in numeric operations.
[Guido]
Not necessarily. If decimals are used for (in-memory) representation, they can't represent all rationals.
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