Re: (newbie) fractional arithmetic

[Tony Roberts]

>Hello!  Short version: can Octave perform fractional arithmetic?  E.g.,
>     1
> x = -
>     9
>instead of 0.1111... as a floating double?
>If anyone can suggest a more appropriate solution for Linux besides
>shelling out for Mathematica, I'm all ears.

Use a computer algebra package instead.  Two free versions are MuPaD and
the demo version of reduce.  Get them from
http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/MuPAD and
ftp://ftp.zib.de/pub/reduce/demo/linux/ respectively.

                                                Tony

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