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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
Date: 1997/01/26
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Eric says

"Hmmm. ABC sounds interesting, but from the description above, this does
not sound like a capability that it has that Smalltalk does not have as
well. Smalltalk can also do infinite precision arithmetic using its
built-in Fraction class. I too have seen the pi example described above
written in a few lines of Smalltalk code."

As far as I know the built in fraction class in ST is just straigntforward
rational arithmetic, that I know of, continued fractions are not used.
Can you in ST print out the Square root of 2 to as many digits as you
like, or the cosine of 0.3?