[boost] Re: [rational] Announcing new maintainer -- call for feature requests

From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-17 14:07:15

"Andras Erdei" <aerdei_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:7fe28deb05041209262c56cea8_at_mail.gmail.com...
> On Apr 9, 2005 3:11 PM, Andy Little <andy_at_[hidden]> wrote:

Apologies for not answering the other points. This is a complicated issue and I
dont have answers..

Nevertheless I thought I better respond to this, because life is easy for me, 
English being my native language.

>> Is a rational number implementation that has been rounded, a rational
>> number?...  Yes, but not the one you expected.
>
> can you rephrase this (most likely i don't get this one because of my english)

Assume you add 1/2 + 1/3 and you get the result  2/3  or 1/1. (assume a
rational<uint2>) 2/3 is a rational number as is 1/1.

BTW what would be the result in your rounding version of the calculation?

regards
Andy Little

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