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------- Additional Comments From cananian@alumni.princeton.edu  2004-06-02 21:21 -------
While we're changing Fraction: the multiplyBy and divideBy methods should be
renamed 'multiply' and 'divide' to match standard Java convention: see for
example the BigInteger class.  There's some discussion of (eventually) adding
operator overloading to Java, which would use these 'standard named methods', so
this could become even more important than it is at present.

The next patch, which is separated out from the others and should be applied
*after* attachment #11701, simply deprecates the current names and adds new
methods with the 'correct' names.  Old code will continue to work.

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