Greg> But how long are they going to *stay* small and efficient, Greg> once you start doing arithmetic on them? Depends on what kind of arithmetic. Greg> The problem as I see it is not the magnitude of the number, but Greg> that the number of significant bits grows without bound, if you Greg> never throw any of them away. So I'm suggesting that maybe it won't get bad as quickly if you keep only the significant bits :-) Seriously, I don't know whether it would help in practice. It might be that normalizing rationals from time to time would be enough. -- Andrew Koenig, ark@research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark
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