<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">&gt; i had a go at it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
<br></div><div>thanks, I kinda had to go too, but no time... :(</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div>&gt; yeah, my patch only works for rational numbers.<br><br>you know what, I think I asked this before on this list, </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">deja&#39;vu<br><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">&gt; </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">will have a look at the article / method you posted, claude.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">are you going at it too? :)</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">by the way, I meant something like 1.75 becomes 7/4 and not 3/4, but that is easy to adapt on your patch</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">thanks</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">cheers</span></div>
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</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/12/16 i go bananas <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hard.off@gmail.com">hard.off@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
by the way, here is the method i used:<br><br>first, convert the decimal part to a fraction in the form of n/100000 <br>next, find the highest common factor of n and 100000  <br>(using the &#39;division method&#39; like this:  <a href="http://easycalculation.com/what-is-hcf.php" target="_blank">http://easycalculation.com/what-is-hcf.php</a> )<br>

<br>then just divide n and 100000 by that factor.<br><br>actually, that means it&#39;s accurate to 6 decimal places, i guess.  well...whatever :D<br>
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