[R] gmp::bigq vs. MASS::fractions
Sigbert Klinke
@|gbert @end|ng |rom w|w|@hu-ber||n@de
Wed Jan 11 17:13:57 CET 2023
Hello,
Am 07.01.23 um 17:55 schrieb Ivan Krylov:
> What do you need the fractions for?
>
When writing tasks for statistics exams, I try to avoid non-terminal
intermediate results. Students might round them and arrive at a final
result that might be slightly different from the true value. Although
the exam package supports a tolerance for checking the result, this
could be problematic. To check if a number is non-terminal, I calculate
a fraction representation and check if the denominator can be expressed
by 2^p 5^q.
@Enrico: When I started developing assignments a few years ago, I was
not familiar with gmp. :(
Thanks Sigbert
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