Ok.
e.r.
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 17:45 +0200, Albert Graef wrote:
> Eddie Rucker wrote:
> > Just noticed that
> > > 3%4+2%3;
> > 17L%12L
> >
> > It would look much better if the answer was 17%12 since both 17 and 12
> > are machine ints.
>
> The whole point of the rational type is that it represents exact
> rationals, you certainly don't want numerator and denominator to wrap
> around in rational arithmetic like machine ints do. That's why rational
> numbers necessarily use bigints and thus int operands of % must be
> promoted to bigint.
>
> Albert
>
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