Rationalizing numeric types

2015-06-22 Thread yary
Thinking over my programming career, there were a few occasions I had to spend time working around floating point errors, and it was a nuisance. There were even fewer times when I worked with transcendental numbers- programs dealing with geometry or tones or logarithmic scales- and those times,

Re: Rationalizing numeric types

2015-06-22 Thread Solomon Foster
Yary, There already is a Perl 6 continue fractions module. Spoiler alert: it doesn't work in the least. But I'd be happy to give you a commit bit. I don't think we should even begin to think about including something like that in the Perl 6 core before we have a complete, working