Decimals to improper fractions program?

[Gerson W. Barbosa]

(06-07-2018 07:27 AM)Dieter Wrote:  355/113 = 3,14159292... which agrees with pi in exactly 7 significant digits. Both truncated (3,141592) and rounded (3,141593).

Starting with 355/113 and its rounded 7-significant digit result, we can easily double the number of digits in the approximation:

355/113 = 3.141593 (rounded)

3.141593 - SQRT(3)/5000000 = 3.1415926535898 (rounded)

(Off-topic, but I thought you’d find that interesting).

Gerson.