Re^2: Why does Perl 6 math suck less?

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Re^3: Why does Perl 6 math suck less? by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 12, 2011 at 11:01 UTC
By defaulting to rational numbers that are stored as two integers internally. As explained in the link I provided. (Note that floating point numbers are still accessible with by using scientifc notation, eg `0.1e0`) Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Why does Perl 6 math suck less? by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 12, 2011 at 11:23 UTC
By defaulting to rational numbers that are stored as two integers internally To get the same sort of behaviour with perl5 you could use Math::BigRat or Math::GMPq. Any other perl5 alternatives ? Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^4: Why does Perl 6 math suck less? by sharkey (Scribe) on Jan 12, 2011 at 16:23 UTC
How is 0.1 stored? as floating point or fixed point or ?	[reply]
Re^5: Why does Perl 6 math suck less? by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 12, 2011 at 16:42 UTC
As a rational number, that is, basically as Fraction represented a pair of numbers: `my $number = { numerator => 1, denominator => 10, };` [download]	[reply] [d/l]