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8.28. bigrat
Implements big rational support for Perl. For example, if you want to add the fractions 1/2 + 3/8, you can use bigrat to calculate the result and display it in fractional form: 7/8. Or in Perl terms:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use bigrat; my $frac1 = 1/2; my $frac2 = 3/8; print $frac1 + $frac2, "\n"; # Prints 7/8
As of Perl 5.8, bigrat is shipped with the Perl source kit.
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