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Floating point arithmetics (eviltoast.org)
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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yes that is correct. A BigInt represents the entire integer set.

Rational numbers are defined by just 2 integers. Therefore, 2 BigInts represent the entire rational set.