Re: How to pass a fraction as a parameter for a Scheme function

[Valentin Villenave]

On 6/10/20, Paolo Prete <paolopr976@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I looked at the list of predicates...;
>
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/predefined-type-predicates.it.html
>
> ... I have been misled by the term "rational". In fact, in the italian
> language the term "rational" (---> razionale)  means an irreducible
> fraction of two coprime integers, while in the english language it means a
> number that can be expressed as the quotient or fraction p/q of two
> integers.

Oh, that’s interesting.

> For example, "2/4" is not rational in italian, but it is rational in
> english. Then I did not even consider that predicate.
> I suggest the italian maintainer of the translation to keep note of this
> ambiguity.

I’m CCing Federico, but if you’re interested you may also want to join
the brand new Italian-speaking mailing list he’s just launched!
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-it

Cheers,
-- V.