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[โ€“] Zarobi@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can you explain how this works exactly? Do you mean you have like a "third type" or "fraction": 3 and you just store 00 for 0/3, 01 for 1/3, 10 for 2/3, 11 for 3/3? If it's an object, struct, or class type to store the context, then it's not a primative and has a lot of overhead for arithmetic and I don't see how you could possibly even do simple things like 1/3 + 2/6

[โ€“] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
is_half = True
is_third = True