iota to array

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 07:50:10PM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[...]
> One case that I found interesting was that in writing
> core.time.convClockFreq so that it didn't require floating point
> values, it not only avoided the inaccuracies caused by using FP, but
> it even was able to cover a larger range of values than FP because of
> how it splits out the whole number and fractional portions to do the
> math.
[...]

It would be nice to have a standard rational / fractional number library
in Phobos.  It's a pretty common need.  IIRC, somebody wrote one some
time ago.  I wonder if it's worth pushing it into Phobos.


T

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