A use for integer quotients

[Tim Daneliuk]

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> 
> 23 Jul 2001 17:00:01 GMT, Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> pisze:
> 
> > - This is not "incorrect" arithmetic.  *It is 3/4 == .75 that is incorrect*
> >   because the precision of the result exceeds the precision of the operands.
> 
> It doesn't exceed if the result is a rational. Operands and the result
> are all exact here.
> 
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Not formally, AFAIK.  For example, 3 with no decimal point following
could be anything from 2.5 to 3.4.  If I remember correctly, to be
fussy about it, you would need to specify 3.00/4.00 to get 0.75 or am
I missing something or misremembering my ancient maths courses ;) ?

More importantly, the thing everyone is talking about here is an
integer operation yielding a real (float) result.  Isn't this kind of
a "no-no" amongst mathematicians? 

Maybe I'm wrong here...
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