# Why no fraction in FloatingPoint?

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**Created:** [February 26, 2018, 2:17pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/why-no-fraction-in-floatingpoint/10337 "2018-02-26T14:17:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/why-no-fraction-in-floatingpoint/10337/6 "2018-02-26T23:18:11Z")

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There's some discussion about this [here](https://forums.swift.org/t/proposal-draft-enhanced-floating-point-protocols/2201), but I'm not sure if it answers your question, exactly. The part about remainder moving the discontinuity away from 0 might be relevant.

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