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On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2016, at 13:33, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> and then you can use the special "tagged literal" syntax, like with
>> special forms of string literal:
>>
>> >>> f*22/7 + f*2/11
>> Fraction(256, 77)
>
> I like the infix fraction literal syntax better: 22/f/7 + 2/f/11.

Sadly, the postfix syntax 22/7**f is a total failure.