$epsilon = 1.0e-6 feels too big for Rat()

Folks, I am only beginning to unwrap the christmas present but I immediately fell in love with the perl6 arithmetic system. Not is it rich but it is also fast. % perl6 > 340282366920938463463374607431768211297.is-prime True > 340282366920938460843936948965011886881.is-prime False And type

Re: $epsilon = 1.0e-6 feels too big for Rat()

Considering that a non-fat Rat has a 64-bit denominator, I would expect conversions from Num to make use of that full precision by default, and not round off to 6 decimal places. -- Darren Duncan

Re: $epsilon = 1.0e-6 feels too big for Rat()

Considering that the Chinese 5th Century is 1849, I would expect http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015046627348 to present less zuo. -jas On 31 December 2015 at 03:48, Darren Duncan wrote: > Considering that a non-fat Rat has a 64-bit denominator, I would