From: Christoph <chr_mail@...>
Date: 2005-05-06T03:45:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Float to Rational

Zane Dodson schrieb:

>Knuth has a discussion of this in `Seminumerical Algorithms, The Art
>of Computer Programming, vol. 2.'
>
>In the third edition, it is in sec. 4.5.3 (pp. 356ff).  See also
>exercise 4.5.3.2
>  
>
Florian's solution is of course nothing but continued fraction
- without the (relative) error term he could be into a long wait
calling  #to_r  unless he is very lucky ..


/Christoph