Thanks. I did not know. I thought the standard was mixed numbers.
On 2/7/07, Martin Albrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 07:44, Timothy Clemans wrote:
Does SAGE support representing 11/3 as 3 2/3, 22/13 as 1 9/13, and
55/4 as 11 1/4? My understanding is that this is the standard in math.
Hi,
what do you mean by representing? SAGE can surely read those
representations:
sage: 11/3
11/3
sage: 3 + 2/3
11/3
sage: 22/6
11/3
However, the output (and storage format) are always going to be the same: i.e.
numerator and denominator are canceled out as much as possible, which is the
canonical representation. Given, that there are infinitely many
representations, it is necessary to restrict to a canonical representation.
Martin
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