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Rick Regan on Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:15:56 +0200
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Re: Is There a Way to Rationalize a Decimal in Pari/GP?
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- Subject: Re: Is There a Way to Rationalize a Decimal in Pari/GP?
- From: Rick Regan <exploringbinary@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:00:32 -0400
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Thanks Bill (and John who contacted me off list). -- bestappr() does the trick!
In my case I always want the exact fraction, so I have to make sure I
specify a large enough denominator. I am converting long decimals, and
I don't want to count decimal places. The easy solution seems to be to
pass bestappr() an arbitrarily large power of 10, like
bestappr(0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015626,10^100).
Rick
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