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by dwohnitmok 197 days ago
I don't see anywhere in HAKMEM where they advocate for the use of unbounded rational numbers.

Do you have any examples of unbounded rational numbers used in a microcontroller program, in a production Forth program, or really in any production user-facing codebase?

I ask specifically for unbounded rational numbers because again bounded rational numbers are effectively equivalent to floating point and fixed denominator rational numbers are equivalent to fixed point.