[Squeakland] A question about fractions and large integers in Etoys

Ken Kahn kenkahn at toontalk.com
Fri Jan 9 12:13:56 PST 2004


I understand that Squeak supports very large integers and exact
fractions (as opposed to approximate floating point numbers). What I
don't know is if and how this functionality is presented in Etoys. For
example what happens when you divide 1 by 3? How is the repeated decimal
expansion displayed? Or is it displayed as 1/3? Or if a child computes
the factorial of 10000 how are the over 35,000 digits displayed?

Thanks in advance,

-ken kahn

P.S. I'm writing a paper on how these issues are dealt with in ToonTalk
and am writing the "related work" section.




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