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> > Also, most rational vectors do not have a rational magnitude.
>
> If you have a Pythagorean triple (x, y, h), x^2+y^2==h^2, it
> represents an angle arctan(y/x).
Except that h is typically *not* an integer. Once you go off-integer,
you hit the FPU precision problem, because in the FPU all numbers are
on a "grid".
The only way to avoid the FPU precision problem is to avoid *all*
floating point numbers, rational or otherwise, and stick with
integers.
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