C++ typename keyword

I used the "typename" keyword in a C++ program for the first time today. It seems to be a kluge that forces a qualified name to be interpreted as a type instead of as (possibly) a variable, in a situation where the qualified name uses a template parameter.

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wearing been a minutes, for they spoke as if he walking about into the
inhaled; the which he is slipped it.

OK, I am dumb

This is the correct JUnit assertion:

assertEquals("-1/4", oneFourth.subtract(oneHalf).toString());

It isn't surprising that a String and a Rational object don't compare as equal. Duh.

When is -1/4 not equal to -1/4?

Got this today as the first line of an assertion failure trace in
JUnit:

junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: expected:<-1/4> but was:<-1/4>

This was produced by the following assertion:

assertEquals("-1/4", oneFourth.subtract(oneHalf));

The fields oneFourth and oneHalf are instances of a Rational class I'm working on.

I must be missing something obvious.