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The internal data structure for rational numbers is rat(Num,Den)
.
Den is always positive, i.e. the sign of the rational number is the
sign of Num. Further, Num and Den are relative prime.
Note that integer N looks like rat(N,1)
in this representation.
You can control printing of terms with portray/1
.