> On 23-04-2018, at 1:59 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:34 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> Do you normally want your fraction precise to an actual epsilon or to a fraction of the real value?
> 
> Actually I guess that you could make a % value by working out the integer part, approximating the epsilon from that and using your method, so go for it. Not that I'm a numerics geek by any stretch.
> 
>  So you'd rather see
> 
> asApproximateFraction
> 	"Answer a Fraction approximating the receiver. This conversion uses the 
> 	continued fraction method to approximate a floating point number."
> 
> 	^self asApproximateFractionToEpsilon: self abs / 1.0e6
> 
> ?  

Seems good to me. It's like the difference between wanting to print numbers to X decimal places vs Y significant digits. I think...

tim
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