Decimals to fraction strings
Mikael Olofsson
mikael at isy.liu.se
Wed May 17 02:40:46 EDT 2000
On 17-May-00 François Pinard wrote:
> Not necessarily. 0.6667 is well approximated by 1:3, for example, while
> if you force the denominator to be an exponent of 10, you will obtain a
> fraction which is not only uglier, but less precise.
Precise in what respect? Given the (possibly rounded) number 0.6667, we
do not know if its origin is 2/3 or something else. It might very well
be 6667/10000. The latter is definitely closer to the given number than
the former, thus more precise.
/Mikael
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