Re: An alternative to floating point

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From: Colin Plumb
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 1990 00:01

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Also see HAKMEM (MIT AI Memo #239, Feburary 1972) Item #101, where
Gosper raves about the advantages of continued fractions as a numerical
representation.  There are simple algorithms for adding, subtracting,
multiplying, and dividing infinite streams of continued fraction
coefficients to produce more streams and, of course, all rational
numbers come out even.
-- 
	-Colin

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From: colin@array.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
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Subject: Re: An alternative to floating point
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Date: 1 Aug 90 00:01:34 GMT
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