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[–] HStone32 28 points 3 days ago (23 children)

I've wondered why programming languages don't include accurate fractions as part of their standard utils. I don't mind calling dc, but I wish I didn't need to write a bash script to pipe the output of dc into my program.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Many do. Matlab, Julia and Smalltalk are the ones I know

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

... Perl, Haskell, Lisp, ...

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