At 08:20 AM 1/4/2007, Terry Carroll wrote: >On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Dick Moores wrote: > > > Terry, I just noticed that farey(0.36, 10) returns (1, 3), a pretty > > big miss, IMO. The correct fraction with smallest error and maximum > > denominator of 10 is 3/8, which I'm proud to say my klunky frac.py > > (<http://www.rcblue.com/Python/fracForWeb.py>) produces. > >Dick, good catch. Consider adding a comment to the Cookbook page pointing >out that the method sometimes does not produce the incorrect answer, >including for that input.
Done. Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
