newbie question: print rational as decimal number

• Subject: newbie question: print rational as decimal number
• From: andre maute
• Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:39:59 +0100

what am I supposed to do for printing

r : 254471799841260872232137838180485/566407006423962932969881084235776;

as decimal number?

printf( true, "~f~%", r );

does not work

r : 2/3;

should result in

1.5


Best regards

Andre

P.S.: the Maple equivalent would be feval

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