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Originally Posted by ADL Colin
Of course anyone would use a fraction in that PARTICULAR situation
But you have problems where you will get output in decimal form that cannot be represented as fractions. For example, my senior project used a symplectic integration scheme to predict the positions of the plants over hundreds of millions of years. You couldn't represent those positions in fractions.
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You'd probably write a program to do that, so who cares ;)
I did a whole bunch of stuff in matlab that spewed tables of decimals, there's time and place for everything