Re: The rational function

(rational 72 100) does what I’m guessing you expected.

7.2 is a different number with a much longer binary fraction

On Apr 6, 2020, at 2:36 PM, Ramamoorthi Bhaskar <bhaskar51@gmail.com> wrote:

I can't figure out why (rational 7.2) or (rational 7.20) should produce

7549747/1048576

Any ideas?

Thanks
Bhaskar

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