Apropos

numerator, denominatorFunction

    Syntax

    numerator rational numerator

    denominator rational denominator

    Arguments and Values

    rational — a rational.

    numerator — an integer.

    denominator — a positive integer.

    Description

    numerator and denominator reduce rational to canonical form and compute the numerator or denominator of that number.

    numerator and denominator return the numerator or denominator of the canonical form of rational.

    If rational is an integer, numerator returns rational and denominator returns 1.

    Examples
    (numerator 1/2)  1 
    (denominator 12/36)  3 
    (numerator -1)  -1 
    (denominator (/ -33))  33 
    (numerator (/ 8 -6))  -4 
    (denominator (/ 8 -6))  3
    See Also

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    Notes
    (gcd (numerator x) (denominator x))  1