From help-request at octave dot org Thu Jan  5 16:21:23 2006
Subject: Re: rational numbers only
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso <jordigh at gmail dot com>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:21:05 -0500

On  5-Jan-2006, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:

| I suppose this could be an interesting exercise, but who would use the
| finished product? Not me, personally. It is already implemented in
| other software packages and seems of little use for the kind of person
| who uses Octave, the kind usually interested in numerical analysis.

OK, then use the other software.  Or, if you want to use that
capability directly in Octave, find some way to make it possible to
use the functionality provided by those other langauges inside
Octave.  Do those other langauges make that easy to do?

jwe



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