problem when converting from double

[Décio Luiz Gazzoni Filho]

On Friday 28 January 2005 13:16, Thomas Abraham wrote:
> hi,
>
> I am a beginner with GMP so this may sound stupid :
>
> I am trying to convert a double type to rational and then find the
> numerator and denominator integers. so i do

You won't get meaningful approximations by using the built-in functions, in 
particular due to the quirks of representing numbers in a given base and 
converting numbers from one base to another, as noted by the sibling post. 
I'd suggest using continued fraction theory instead. For instance, download 
the PARI/GP package (http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/) and play with the 
bestappr function.

Décio
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