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Re: smallest fraction

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• Subject: [mg86792] Re: [mg86771] smallest fraction
• From: Curtis Osterhoudt <cfo at lanl.gov>
• Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:53:11 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: LANL
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• Reply-to: cfo at lanl.gov

  I doubt this is in the spirit of the problem, but if p and q (assumed 
integers) aren't restricted to be _positive_, then taking them both to be 
very large negative numbers would both fit the p/q in I requirement, and p+q 
as "small" as possible. 

               C.O.

On Thursday 20 March 2008 01:57:30 masmoudi wrote:
> hi
>
> suppose that we have an interval  I belong to [0,1]
>
> I want to know how to calculate a fraction p/q
> belong to I and p+q is the smallest possible



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