Path: utzoo!dciem!array!colin
From: colin@array.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: An alternative to floating point
Message-ID: <356@array.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 90 00:01:34 GMT
References: <622@.tetrauk.UUCP> <3491@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <1990Jul31.130623.15963@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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Also see HAKMEM (MIT AI Memo #239, Feburary 1972) Item #101, where
Gosper raves about the advantages of continued fractions as a numerical
representation.  There are simple algorithms for adding, subtracting,
multiplying, and dividing infinite streams of continued fraction
coefficients to produce more streams and, of course, all rational
numbers come out even.
-- 
	-Colin