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senthil@mediaone.net (senthil) wrote:

>Is Rational fractions implemented in STL(much like complex)?

No, standard C++ does not have any special operation for rationals.

I wondered why not, but I think I have the answer: Virtually every C++
programming textbook creates two sample classes, string and rational.
Since strings are now in the standard C++ library, the standards
committee had to throw a sop to all those textbook writers by leaving
them their only other example.  :-)

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Hello there:
Is Rational fractions implemented in STL(much like complex)?
Senthil


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senthil <senthil@mediaone.net> writes:


>Is Rational fractions implemented in STL(much like complex)?

No. The C++ standard library supports only the built-in
types and complex numbers. There may be third party
libraries that support rational numbers, but you'd have
to ask that in another newsgroup.

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