Hi Richard and Stravos.
My original idea was avoid manual convertion like 0.5 to 1/2. But as this is
not automatically make for maxima the original idea was changed:
Need a function that view an generic numerical expression of any lenght like:
0.5 + 1/3 - 3/8 +0.3*1/4
detect the decimal number, convert it for rational number, show the convertion
of this decimal to rational and show the result in a rational number.
This is for teaching childrens to calculate the num?rical expressions and
return its value in a simplificated form.
Thanks.
Em Wed 04 Jan 2006 14:58, Richard Fateman escreveu:
> Don't put any floating point numbers into maxima. Use 1/2 not 0.5
>
> Or you can use the program rat(......)
> to convert to rational approximations, in some contexts.
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