Dear forum, Dear Nasira Sindhu,
> is there any function in GAP, which parses a rational number like 66/123 in a
> floating point number like 0.536 ?
The command `EvalF' returns a string containing a floating point representation
of a rational number.
For example:
gap> EvalF(1/81);
"0.0123456790"
gap> EvalF(1/81,50);
"0.01234567901234567901234567901234567901234567901234"
Please be aware that the only thing you can do with these strings is human
display -- there is no arithmetic functionality.
Regards,
Alexander Hulpke
-- Colorado State University, Department of Mathematics,
Weber Building, 1874 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1874, USA
email: hul...@math.colostate.edu, Phone: ++1-970-4914288
http://www.math.colostate.edu/~hulpke
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