Re: [boost] Why there is no boost::rational for non IntType ?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-26 13:00:19

Johan Råde wrote:
> Reetesh Mukul wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Another question, is there any continued fraction library in BOOST ?
>
> The Math Toolkit library in Boost 1.35 has support for continued
> fractions.
> Go to the Math/Special Functions docs, and then look under Internal
> Details and Tools.

To be precise: it has support for continued fraction *evaluation* - as 
required by many special functions implementations - it does *not* support 
continued fractions as a distinct type (similar to Boost.Rational) with full 
arithmetic support etc.

HTH, John.