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		colomon on Dec 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Mathematical Hacker (2012) The only reason I haven't actually implemented a number type like this in Perl 6 (someone proposed it to me years ago) is I didn't really it had such a lovely and practical application.

colomon on Dec 23, 2013 [–]

Props to Haskell, though -- p6 makes it easy to do, but Haskell is definitely more elegant here. Though maybe if I keep playing with it...

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