it's possible in vanilla, but the mathematics goes over my head On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres <por...@gmail.com>wrote:
> looks like a job for an external > > > > 2011/12/16 i go bananas <hard....@gmail.com> > >> actually, i'm not going to do anything more on this. >> >> i had a look at the articles claude posted, and they went a bit far over >> my head. >> >> my patch will still work for basic things like 1/4 and 7/8, but i >> wouldn't depend on it working for a serious application. As you first >> suggested, it's not so simple, and if you read claude's articles, you will >> see that it isn't. >> >> it's not brain science though, so maybe someone with a bit more number >> understanding can tackle it. >> >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres < >> por...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> > i had a go at it >>> >>> thanks, I kinda had to go too, but no time... :( >>> >>> > yeah, my patch only works for rational numbers. >>> >>> you know what, I think I asked this before on this list, >>> >>> deja'vu >>> >>> > will have a look at the article / method you posted, claude. >>> >>> are you going at it too? :) >>> >>> by the way, I meant something like 1.75 becomes 7/4 and not 3/4, but >>> that is easy to adapt on your patch >>> >>> thanks >>> >>> cheers >>> >>> >>> >>> 2011/12/16 i go bananas <hard....@gmail.com> >>> >>>> by the way, here is the method i used: >>>> >>>> first, convert the decimal part to a fraction in the form of n/100000 >>>> next, find the highest common factor of n and 100000 >>>> (using the 'division method' like this: >>>> http://easycalculation.com/what-is-hcf.php ) >>>> >>>> then just divide n and 100000 by that factor. >>>> >>>> actually, that means it's accurate to 6 decimal places, i guess. >>>> well...whatever :D >>>> >>> >>> >> >
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