On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Joachim Durchholz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am 27.03.2012 21:14, schrieb someone:
>
>> But then there is the question if it is possible and fruitful
>> to just replace floats by mpfloats/bigfloatsor if this gives
>> bad behaviour.
>>
>
> One bad behaviour would be getting fractions with extremely large
> numerators and denominators.
> Floats are essentially trading precision for a smaller memory footprint.
>
>
The limit_denominator can help with this:

>>> Rational(2**40,3**39)
1099511627776/4052555153018976267
>>> _.limit_denominator(10**15)
244736711/902045048220285
>>> _.limit_denominator(10**12)
77999/287486954567

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