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No current computing architecture provides primitives for dealing for rational numbers. (Which is why you need to roll your own implementation in software, so n
by otabdeveloper4 4y ago
No current computing architecture provides primitives for dealing for rational numbers. (Which is why you need to roll your own implementation in software, so nobody bothers.)
But we have great native support for approximating real numbers instead. (Because computing is designed first and foremost to make numerical methods efficient.)