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Re: rationals as a Lisp data type
- To: RWK at MIT-MC
- Subject: Re: rationals as a Lisp data type
- From: CSVAX.fateman at Berkeley
- Date: Wed ,24 Dec 80 13:03:46 EDT
- Cc: DLW at MIT-MC, GJS at MIT-MC, HIC at MIT-MC, LISP-FORUM at MIT-MC, rwg at mit-mc
I do not object to a data type which is expensive and useful. I suspect
however, that rationals will be found to be less useful than, for example,
bigfloats or what Collins calls "binary rationals" (power of 2 denominators),
or perhaps IEEE standard floating point.