From: janburse@fastmail.fm   
      
   Hi,   
      
   Nasser M. Abbasi schrieb:   
   > So my question is: Why does Mathematica implement x/x as x*(1/x)   
   > or rather, why does one not get the same result as Mathematica   
   > gets using the other systems?   
      
   Matlab, Mathematic: floats   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point   
      
   Maple: rationals   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_data_type   
      
   Bye   
      
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