8 Mar
2014
8 Mar
'14
3:46 a.m.
random832@fastmail.us writes:
Or, for that matter, you could limit both the numerator and the denominator to some maximum value - when an intermediate result exceeds it (won't be more than the square of the maximum for most operations), you find the closest representable value.
Knuth calls that "fixed slash" (actually somewhat more general than I think you mean -- numerator and denominator can have different maximum values).