Re: [Qexo-general] Problem with division

[Per Bothner]

Seshukumar Venkata Adiraju wrote:
> The Expression
>
> (($num), "/", $den ,"=", ($num div $den))
>
>  
>
> evaluates to
>
>  
>
> 14704478/2425000=7352239/1212500

> Why is this happening?

I took some shortcurs when implementing Qexo arithmetic,
basically using Scheme arithmetic.  And Scheme provides
exact rational arithmetic.

As a work-around, you could add 0.0 or multiply by 1.0
to force the result to floating-point.
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