it's possible in vanilla, but the mathematics goes over my head<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:porres@gmail.com">porres@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">looks like a job for an external<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2011/12/16 i go bananas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hard.off@gmail.com" target="_blank">hard.off@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
actually, i'm not going to do anything more on this.<br><br>i had a look at the articles claude posted, and they went a bit far over my head. <br><br>my patch will still work for basic things like 1/4 and 7/8, but i wouldn't depend on it working for a serious application. As you first suggested, it's not so simple, and if you read claude's articles, you will see that it isn't.<br>
<br>it's not brain science though, so maybe someone with a bit more number understanding can tackle it. <br><div><div><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:porres@gmail.com" target="_blank">porres@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> i had a go at it</span></div>
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<br></div><div>thanks, I kinda had to go too, but no time... :(</div></span><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div>> yeah, my patch only works for rational numbers.<br><br></div>you know what, I think I asked this before on this list, </span><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">deja'vu<br><br></span></div><div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> </span><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 style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div><div><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 style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><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 style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">thanks</span></div>
<div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><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"><<a href="mailto:hard.off@gmail.com" target="_blank">hard.off@gmail.com</a>></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 'division method' 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's accurate to 6 decimal places, i guess. well...whatever :D<br>
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