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From: wware@world.std.com (Will Ware)
Subject: Re: Divison.  Was Re: 10 Reasons Why Scheme is Better Than C/C++
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Mark Meiss (mmeiss@beavis.indiana.edu) wrote:
: In article <584nbh$11j@news.hcl.com>, Robert McDermid <mcdermid@hcl.com> wrote:
: >
: >BTW, 1/3 is an irrational, not a rational...
: It is too a rational.  It's the ratio of two integers.  It's a repeating
: decimal.  And it can be expressed exactly in base 3 as 0.1, in base 6
: as 0.2, in base 12 as 0.25, and so on.

Sorry to pick nits, but the number in base 12 is 0.4.
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