Maxima rationals compared to CL rationals



Raymond Toy wrote:

> Barton Willis wrote:
> > Which function will compute 1 + 1/2 + ... + 1/5000 the fastest?
>
> Speaking of which, should we think about bringing in Richard Fateman's 
> work on making maxima work with CL rationals?  It would be nice to be 
> able to use CL rationals in the Lisp code, instead of having to use 
> ((rat) num den).
>
> Ray

Yes, I think this would be a worthwhile endeavour.
Unfortunately I'm in deep with other work (hey I have to live on
something), so I will probably not be able to help much :-(
OK, we'll see.

'Andreas