[GAP Forum] parse rational number

[Alexander Hulpke]

Dear forum, Dear Nasira Sindhu,

> is there any function in GAP, which parses a rational number like 66/123 in a floating point number like 0.536 ? 
The command `EvalF' returns a string containing a floating point representation of a rational number.
For example:
gap> EvalF(1/81);
"0.0123456790"
gap> EvalF(1/81,50);
"0.01234567901234567901234567901234567901234567901234"

Please be aware that the only thing you can do with these strings is human display -- there is no arithmetic functionality.

Regards,

    Alexander Hulpke

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