Re: (newbie) fractional arithmetic

[Prasanth Kumar]

As an alternative to Octave is Maxima, a GPLd older version of
Macsyma IIRC. It can do fractions and symbolic manipulations
like Mathematica.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua McFadden" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Cc: "Joshua McFadden" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 1:54 PM
Subject: (newbie) fractional arithmetic


> Hello!  Short version: can Octave perform fractional arithmetic?  E.g.,
>      1
>  x = -
>      9
> instead of 0.1111... as a floating double?
>
> Quoting the manual, "Note that all numeric constants are represented
> within Octave in double-precision floating point form."  I was hoping
> someone had written a way around that.  :)
>
> I'm trying to explore iteration periods of the doubling function for a
> class, and repeating decimals get lost in precision errors pretty quickly.
> If anyone can suggest a more appropriate solution for Linux besides
> shelling out for Mathematica, I'm all ears.
>
> (Sorry if this is inane; I don't have the bandwith to search the
> help-octave archive manually.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Josh
>
>
>
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