Lowest Terms Revisited
L. D. Robinson, C. G. Lyons
Abstract
In the September 1994 issue of Math Horizons the following problem is given in the Problem Section (p. 33, Problem 5): Lowest Terms - what fraction has the smallest denominator in the interval (19/94, 17/76)? In this paper we develop a general algorithm for solving problems of this type.
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