Mediant approximation trick
The Endeavour 2023-02-07
Summary:
Suppose you are trying to approximate some number x and you’ve got it sandwiched between two rational numbers: a/b < x < c/d. Now you’d like a better approximation. What would you do? The obvious approach would be to take the average of a/b and c/d. That’s fine, except it could be a fair amount […]
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