Hack request: rational numbers

[Erik Max Francis]

Rainer Deyke wrote:

> It serves no real purpose except in some fairly specialized fields,
> but it
> is easy to implement, doesn't get in the way, and is "fun" - just like
> the
> current built-in support for complex numbers.

So you can always write a hypercomplex or geometric algebra module with
little difficulty.  Including quaternion support in the language itself
seems like overkill.

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