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Re:DEC64: Decimal Floating Point by gumby on Sunday March 04, 2018 @11:16AM (#16515199)
Is Common Lisp not a popular language? It has had rational types natively since the 1980s
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Re:DEC64: Decimal Floating Point by sedachv on Sunday March 04, 2018 @02:36PM (#16516168)
XLISP (and therefore XLISP-STAT) had rational numbers[1] and came out in 1988, R2RS[2] introduced rational numbers in 1985. The Lisp Machines Lisps had rational numbers. There were a lot of people who had rational numbers in the 1980s and the early 1990s.

[1] http://people.sju.edu/~jhodgson/ppl/lisp/lispman.txt [2] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5600

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