in reply to Re^5: Small Perl 6 discoveries II, Rats
in thread [Perl6] Small discoveries I, __DATA__

I would assume that one is a rational number while the other gets constructed and represented as a floating point number. I think you can somehow look into how Perl6 represents the values but I don't know it.

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Re^7: Small Perl 6 discoveries II, Rats
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 28, 2017 at 13:31 UTC
    Yes, but it's the reverse of what any sane person would expect.
    > (111111111111111111111/1000000000000000000000).WHAT
    (Num)
    > (.111111111111111111111).WHAT
    (Rat)
    

      What any sane person would expect would be replies to a post that address the content of the post instead of troll on an unrelated topic.

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