[issue1682] Move Demo/classes/Rat.py to Lib/fractions.py and fix it up.

[Jeffrey Yasskin]

Jeffrey Yasskin added the comment:

1) No worries. Even without inlining the common case of __add__, etc.,
Fraction is now faster than Decimal for smallish fractions
[sum(Fraction(1, i) for i in range(1, 100))], and for large ones
[sum(Fraction(1, i) for i in range(1, 1000))] gcd takes so much of the
time that I can't see the effects of any of the optimizations I've made.
Since I wasn't thinking of this as a high-performance class, I'm taking
that as a sign to stop optimizing, but gcd is definitely the function to
tackle if anyone wants to keep going.

2) I haven't been following __format__, but adding it to Rational sounds
fine to me.

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