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And another dumb questions: Is possible to convert to rationals in calculations? So if I do: 1/3 + 4 + sum / total it record values properly?
by mamcx 9y ago
And another dumb questions:
Is possible to convert to rationals in calculations?
So if I do:
1/3 + 4 + sum / total it record values properly?
- dreamcompiler 9y agoYes. Common Lisp is an example of a language that can represent rationals exactly and do arithmetic on them. You can avoid floating-point precision loss by using this method. But there are drawbacks: 1) The numerator and denominator will often turn into bignums as a calculation progresses, consuming ever-larger amounts of space and time, and 2) This won't help you with any calculation involving irrationals, except to prevent your initial imprecision from growing larger.