Hi good folks! Whats going on here? (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) // 2.0 ((1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3)).asInteger // 1 ((1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3)).ceil.asInteger // 2 (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) + (1/3) == 2.0 // false ((1/3) + (1/3) +…

[image] jamshark70: Yes, it’s all floating point rounding error. The numbers are rounded for posting (conversion to string) but internally they keep as much precision as double allows. But since 1/3 is an infinitely repeating binary fraction, there is some rounding, hence the results aren’t exac…

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smoge December 16, 2025, 2:48pm 18

Rationals aren’t about what people are discussing #sc3k Libraries and Quarks

Look – I am close to completing the integration of Rational numbers into Patterns. And I wanted to clarify some confusion that is the center of discussions. It seems that, with Patterns, an opportunity to improve the messy discussion about it and make it more and more a discussion about what this is all about. Maybe we should probably provide an experimental ‘SuperCollider 3000’ (homage to Andre 3000) fork for easy testing of the changes (since compiling a ‘branch’ will restrict a lot of peopl…

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