Floating point problems

• Subject: Floating point problems
• From: Richard Fateman
• Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:08:15 -0800

On 1/29/2012 6:45 PM, Andrew Davis wrote:
> Is there a standard way to convert between the two forms in memory 
> then? .8 <-> 4/5 , -8.14 <-> -814/100?
rationalize(x) gets the EXACT rational equivalent.

ratdisrep(rat(x))  gets an approximation, depending on ratepsilon.  Read 
the  manual.

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