Re: (2/3)[[1]]
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- Subject: [mg96441] Re: (2/3)[[1]]
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:47:15 -0500 (EST)
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I think it's because (as the doc page of Rational states): Rationals are atomic objects with no subexpressions: In[1]:= AtomQ[22/7] Out[1]= True Cheers -- Sjoerd On Feb 12, 1:33 pm, obo... at gmail.com wrote: > I'm not sure if this has been asked before, but why can't Part be used > with Rational? > > i.e. (2/3)[[1]] > > Thanks.