Re: When/why is Denominator[p/q] != q?
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- Subject: [mg46017] Re: When/why is Denominator[p/q] != q?
- From: bobhanlon at aol.com (Bob Hanlon)
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:20:47 -0500 (EST)
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q is not equal to Denominator[p/q]. In Denominator[p/q] the argument p/q is evaluated before the Denominator is extracted. For example, q=6; Table[{p, p/q, Denominator[p/q]},{p,q-1}] {{1, 1/6, 6}, {2, 1/3, 3}, {3, 1/2, 2}, {4, 2/3, 3}, {5, 5/6, 6}} Bob Hanlon In article <bvla64$83$1 at smc.vnet.net>, relishguy at pluggedin.org (Relishguy) wrote: << I ran this code (from the "Tour of Mathematica" in the Book ): (* -------------------------------- *) g6 = Flatten[Table[Point[{p / q, Denominator[p/q]}], {q, 100}, {p, q - 1}]]; (* same code with q instead of Denominator[p/q] *) g5 = Flatten[Table[Point[{p / q, q }], {q, 100}, {p, q - 1}]]; Show[Graphics[g5, Frame -> True]] Show[Graphics[g6, Frame -> True]] (* -------------------------------- *) For some reason the graphs are not identical. Can anyone point me to the reason for this?