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>rational</B
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>rationalize</B
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>number</SPAN
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><A HREF="f_rational.html" CLASS="funref"
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>rational</B
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> and <A HREF="f_rational.html" CLASS="funref"
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> convert <EM CLASS="term"
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>reals</EM
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> to <A HREF="26_1_Glossary.html#rational"
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>If <VAR CLASS="param"
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>, <A HREF="f_rational.html" CLASS="funref"
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> returns a <A HREF="26_1_Glossary.html#rational"
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> that is mathematically equal in value to the <A HREF="26_1_Glossary.html#float"
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>rational</EM
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> that approximates the <A HREF="26_1_Glossary.html#float"
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>(rational 0) <SPAN CLASS="cmsy"
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> 13421773/134217728 ;implementation-dependent
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> 1/10</PRE
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>The <A HREF="26_1_Glossary.html#implementation"
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>Should signal an error of <A HREF="26_1_Glossary.html#type"
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