[issue21712] fractions.gcd failure

[Tim Peters]

Tim Peters added the comment:

@pacosta, if Mark's answer is too abstract, here's a complete session showing that the result you got for gcd(2.7, 107.3) is in fact exactly correct:

>>> import fractions
>>> f1 = fractions.Fraction(2.7)
>>> f2 = fractions.Fraction(107.3)
>>> f1
Fraction(3039929748475085, 1125899906842624) # the true value of "2.7"
>>> f2
Fraction(7550566250263347, 70368744177664)   # the true value of "107.3"
>>> fractions.gcd(f1, f2)  # computed exactly with rational arithmetic
Fraction(1, 1125899906842624)
>>> float(_)
8.881784197001252e-16

But this will be surprising to most people, and probably useless to all people.  For that reason, passing non-integers to gcd() is simply a Bad Idea ;-)

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