[plt-scheme] [ANN] Heist: a Scheme interpreter in Ruby

2009/8/4 Chongkai Zhu <czhu at cs.utah.edu>

> I just checked both r5rs and r6rs. Their definition of "/simplest/ rational
> number" is more complex than it can be. Here's PLT's (and another system's)
> doc of rationalize:
>
> ----
> (rationalize x tolerance) ? real?
> x : real?
> tolerance : real?
>
> Among the real numbers within (abs tolerance) of x, returns the one
> corresponding to an exact number whose denominator is smallest. If multiple
> integers are within tolerance of x, the one closest to 0 is used.
>
> ----
>
> rationalize(x,dx)
> yields the rational number with smallest denominator that lies within dx of
> x.
>
> ----
>
> in which you can see only to make the denominator smallest is enough. Is
> this enough hint for you to come to an algorithm?


That's certainly enough of a simplification to give me an idea, though I'm
not sure it'll be very efficient. I'll try to implement it and post here for
feedback.

James
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