Does anyone have a solution for the occasional HUGE integers that can be created for the numerator/denominator when using inexact->exact?
For example,
(inexact->exact 0.2)
yields
3602879701896400/18014398509482000
It is correct, but LP doesn't seem to want to deal with such large integers, at least for me. Can this be reduced to 1/5 somehow? Is there a better way to get a rational from a decimal? I can write a crazy function that procedurally determines the minimum power of 10 that gives me a rational with smaller numbers, but I'd rather not. Any advice is very welcome.
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Abraham Lee