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Comment by anthk

1 month ago

Your whole comment can just be TL;DR Forth and the fixed point philosophy :)

Rationals > irrationals on computing them. You can always approximate irrationals with rationals, even Scheme (Lisp, do'h) has a function to convert a rational to decimal and the reverse. decimal to rational.

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