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For questions about method for storing and manipulating numbers on computer systems, such as floating point or binary representations.

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Represent a real number without loss of precision

It all depends what you want to do. For example, what you show is a great way of representing rational numbers. But it still can't represent something like $\pi$ or $e$ perfectly. In fact, many lang …
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