[Haskell-cafe] Why is toRational a method of Real?

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

David Virebayre <dav.vire+haskell at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Henning Thielemann
> <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>
>> What else shall a rounding function return if not integers?
>
> Getting from 29.84645 to 29.85 isn't rounding ?

Yes it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding

Usually, however, we often just want to round something to an integral
value.

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