New class for handling infinite-precision rationals

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Hello,

I suggest a general discussion about whether or not such a class is 
appropriate for inclusion in the platform [1] ahead of review of a 
particular PR.

Cheers,

-Joe

[1] https://openjdk.org/guide/#socialize-your-change

On 2/21/2023 10:21 AM, Fabio Romano wrote:
> The Rational class provides operations for arithmetic, rounding, 
> comparison, hashing, and format conversion. The toString method 
> provides a canonical representation of a Rational. All the 
> calculations performed have an exact result, except for the square and 
> nth roots, in which the user can specify the rounding behavior.
> Link to pull request: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/11982