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by nxobject 89 days ago
Not-so-coincidentally, Scheme specifies an exact rational number type. [0] This does not simplify things. [1]

[0] https://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo/doc/r5rs-9.html#Num...

[1] https://www.deinprogramm.de/sperber/papers/numerical-tower.p...