> > Out of curiosity, of what use is denominator limits? > > The problems where I've had to use rationals have > never afforded me such luxury, so I don't see what > your point is
In Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming, he described floating slash arithmetic where the total number of bits by the numerator and denominator was bounded. IIRC, a use case was matrix inversion. casevh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
