Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2012-02-11 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-12-18 à 12:51:00, Alexandre Torres Porres a écrit : I will take care of that after february, when I finish up my thesis. Can I count on you to help me revise it? Sorry, I meant to say : « Yes ». __ | Mathieu

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-18 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
I will take care of that after february, when I finish up my thesis. Can I count on you to help me revise it? thanks alex 2011/12/18 Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca Le 2011-12-18 à 02:42:00, Alexandre Torres Porres a écrit : by the way, you guys rock :-) So, btw, where can people

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-17 Thread Mike Moser-Booth
for pi. :-) .mmb On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: From: i go bananas hard@gmail.com To: Ludwig Maes ludwig.m...@gmail.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [PD] number to fractions

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-17 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-12-16 à 00:52:00, Alexandre Torres Porres a écrit : Is there an external that converts decimal numbers to fractions, like 1.5 = 3 / 2 ? I bet it's complicated to do it as a vanilla patch, right? Take the number, subtract its whole part to get something less than 1, then invert it to

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-17 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-12-17 à 03:44:00, i go bananas a écrit : how do you get from a continued fraction in the form like this: [0;1,5,2,2] to a fraction in the form like this: 27/32 this patch gets as far as that [0; 1,5,2,2] form.  but i'm still not sure how to get further keep track of the last two

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-17 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
when I change the maximum denominator value results are weird and Pd freezes. cheers 2011/12/17 Mike Moser-Booth mmoserbo...@gmail.com I just added it to my library on GitHub: https://github.com/dotmmb/mmb But, yeah, feel free to use it however you want. .mmb On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-17 Thread Mike Moser-Booth
Oops, the right inlet was connected to a [sel] when it should have been connected to [ 1000]. I'll upload the fix here and on GitHub. .mmb On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres por...@gmail.com wrote: when I change the maximum denominator value results are weird and Pd

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-17 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
i kinda figured that 2011/12/17 Mike Moser-Booth mmoserbo...@gmail.com Oops, the right inlet was connected to a [sel] when it should have been connected to [ 1000]. I'll upload the fix here and on GitHub. .mmb On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres por...@gmail.com

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-17 Thread i go bananas
thanks mattieu! i got it working, thanks to your great help! you have no idea how bummed out i was that i couldn't make this work the other day. dec-to-frac-help.pd Description: Binary data dec-to-frac.pd Description: Binary data ___ Pd-list@iem.at

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-17 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
cool, but now we have two patches that behave and work the same way? thanks Alex 2011/12/18 i go bananas hard@gmail.com thanks mattieu! i got it working, thanks to your great help! you have no idea how bummed out i was that i couldn't make this work the other day.

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-17 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
I mean one from bananas and another from mike, i guess it was clear 2011/12/18 Alexandre Torres Porres por...@gmail.com cool, but now we have two patches that behave and work the same way? thanks Alex 2011/12/18 i go bananas hard@gmail.com thanks mattieu! i got it working, thanks

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-17 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
by the way, you guys rock :-) 2011/12/18 Alexandre Torres Porres por...@gmail.com I mean one from bananas and another from mike, i guess it was clear 2011/12/18 Alexandre Torres Porres por...@gmail.com cool, but now we have two patches that behave and work the same way? thanks Alex

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-17 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-12-16 à 15:51:00, i go bananas a écrit : (using the 'division method' like this:  http://easycalculation.com/what-is-hcf.php ) The division method is much more known as Euclid's Algorithm... And I never saw it named HCF before. Always PGCD in French and GCD in English. By the

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-17 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2011-12-18 à 02:42:00, Alexandre Torres Porres a écrit : by the way, you guys rock :-) So, btw, where can people download the psprofile externals ? __ | Mathieu BOUCHARD - téléphone : +1.514.383.3801 - Montréal,

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
On 16/12/11 06:51, i go bananas wrote: by the way, here is the method i used: first, convert the decimal part to a fraction in the form of n/10 next, find the highest common factor of n and 10 (using the 'division method' like this: http://easycalculation.com/what-is-hcf.php ) then

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread i go bananas
yeah, my patch only works for rational numbers. will have a look at the article / method you posted, claude. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Claude Heiland-Allen cla...@goto10.orgwrote: On 16/12/11 06:51, i go bananas wrote: by the way, here is the method i used: first, convert the

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread i go bananas
sorry, should have said 'finite' numbers. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
i had a go at it thanks, I kinda had to go too, but no time... :( yeah, my patch only works for rational numbers. you know what, I think I asked this before on this list, deja'vu will have a look at the article / method you posted, claude. are you going at it too? :) by the way, I meant

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread i go bananas
actually, i'm not going to do anything more on this. i had a look at the articles claude posted, and they went a bit far over my head. my patch will still work for basic things like 1/4 and 7/8, but i wouldn't depend on it working for a serious application. As you first suggested, it's not so

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
looks like a job for an external 2011/12/16 i go bananas hard@gmail.com actually, i'm not going to do anything more on this. i had a look at the articles claude posted, and they went a bit far over my head. my patch will still work for basic things like 1/4 and 7/8, but i wouldn't

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread i go bananas
it's possible in vanilla, but the mathematics goes over my head On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres por...@gmail.comwrote: looks like a job for an external 2011/12/16 i go bananas hard@gmail.com actually, i'm not going to do anything more on this. i had a look

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 16/12/11 16:05, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: looks like a job for an external Not really answering the OP question but something could be done in Python: def find_frac(num): f = float(num) last_error = 1000 best = (0,0) for i in xrange(1,1001): for j in

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread Ludwig Maes
If you guys 'd done your math, you'd know there is an ancient algorithm for approximating numbers by fractions and its called continued fractions. On 16 December 2011 18:38, Lorenzo Sutton lorenzofsut...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/12/11 16:05, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: looks like a job for

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread i go bananas
if you had read the thread, you would have seen that claude posted a link to that technique. now go and make a PD patch that does it, mr smart guy. On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Ludwig Maes ludwig.m...@gmail.com wrote: If you guys 'd done your math, you'd know there is an ancient

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread i go bananas
how do you get from a continued fraction in the form like this: [0;1,5,2,2] to a fraction in the form like this: 27/32 this patch gets as far as that [0; 1,5,2,2] form. but i'm still not sure how to get further continued.pd Description: Binary data

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
online calculator http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/cfCALC.html ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread i go bananas
yes, but it's difficult to embed that in a pd patch, yeah? On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres por...@gmail.comwrote: online calculator http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/cfCALC.html ___ Pd-list@iem.at

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: i go bananas hard@gmail.com To: Ludwig Maes ludwig.m...@gmail.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [PD] number to fractions external? if you had read the thread, you would have seen that claude posted a link

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-16 Thread Mike Moser-Booth
...@gmail.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [PD] number to fractions external? if you had read the thread, you would have seen that claude posted a link to that technique. now go and make a PD patch that does it, mr smart guy. Wow, how much cpu does

[PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-15 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
hi there, Is there an external that converts decimal numbers to fractions, like 1.5 = 3 / 2 ? I bet it's complicated to do it as a vanilla patch, right? thanks alex ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-15 Thread i go bananas
i had a go at it. This one converts up to 5 decimal places (you could probably mod it to do more, but then you get pretty close to the limits of float-based arithmetic, i think). i was getting glitches, because of the known issue where 58/1000 comes out as 57.9.. , so i have just added a

Re: [PD] number to fractions external?

2011-12-15 Thread i go bananas
by the way, here is the method i used: first, convert the decimal part to a fraction in the form of n/10 next, find the highest common factor of n and 10 (using the 'division method' like this: http://easycalculation.com/what-is-hcf.php ) then just divide n and 10 by that factor.