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For questions about method for storing and manipulating numbers on computer systems, such as floating point or binary representations.

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How do calculators convert from decimal to fraction?

I don't know what calculators actually use, but there are definitely better algorithms than your brute force search. There are several notions of “best approximation” of a real number by a rational. …
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