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You can easily make Ruby work that way... (Score:1)

by Adrian (66) <adrianh@quietstars.com> on 2006.12.11 9:31 (#52202) Homepage Journal

Not a Python head, but on the Ruby front take a look at the (standard) 'mathn' module:

% ruby -e "require 'mathn'; puts 7/2" 7/2

(and that's a proper rational too - none of that floating point nonsense :-)

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