Re: rational numbers only

[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Jan-2006, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:

| I suppose this could be an interesting exercise, but who would use the
| finished product? Not me, personally. It is already implemented in
| other software packages and seems of little use for the kind of person
| who uses Octave, the kind usually interested in numerical analysis.

OK, then use the other software.  Or, if you want to use that
capability directly in Octave, find some way to make it possible to
use the functionality provided by those other langauges inside
Octave.  Do those other langauges make that easy to do?

jwe



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