Some notes about float approximations in mxNumber

2005-04-01 Thread Kay Schluehr
Hi Mark, I was a bit surprised to find the very slow Farey approximation by means of the class in the mxNumber package. If the goal was to reconstruct a rational from a float it is not a good choice and should be replaced by a continued fractions approximation. Some time ago I implemented it by m

Re: Some notes about float approximations in mxNumber

2005-04-04 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Kay Schluehr wrote: > Hi Marc, > > I was a bit surprised to find the very slow Farey approximation by > means of the class in the mxNumber package. If the goal > was to reconstruct a rational from a float it is not a good choice and > should be replaced by a continued fractions approximation. T