RE: [boost] Re: rationals initialization bug

From: Moore, Paul (paul.moore_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-28 04:25:31

From: Dave Abrahams [mailto:abrahams_at_[hidden]]
> Try a web-search at Google for "rationalize algorithm". That turns up 
> many promising links. I stole the following algorithm (written in 
> Python) from similar Java code at  . I don't know if it's the ideal 
> algorithm you're looking for, but it seems to do the job:

Thanks. I'll look at this. Now you mention it, I recall that continued
fractions were where I came on the concept of "simplest possible" rationals.
So this is probably what I'm looking for.

Paul.