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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.
A lot of work has gone into making floating point numbers efficient and they cover 99% of use cases. In the rare case you really need perfect fractional accuracy, it's not that difficult to implement as a pair of integers.