On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Yitzchak Gale wrote: > You always get the best approximation for a Rational > using continued fractions. For most calculations that > is easier said than done, but for square root we are > very lucky.
Certainly no surprise - there is already an implementation of continued fractions for approximation of roots and transcendent functions by Jan Skibinski: http://darcs.haskell.org/numeric-quest/Fraction.hs _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
