Does anyone know of an irrational number representation type/object/class/whatever in any programming language?
All suggestions welcome.
Simply put, if I have two irrational objects, both representing the square root of five, and I multiply those objects, I want to get back the integer five, not float 4 point lots o' 9s.
Specifically, I need the representation to be able to collect terms, not just resolve every time to an integer/float. For instance, if I want to add the square root of five to one, I don't want it to return some approximation integer/float, I want it to return an object that I can add/multiply with another irrational object, such that I can tell the object to resolve at the latest time possible to minimize the float approximation error.
Thanks much!