Dear all, I vaguely remember a discussion on this list some years ago about the following: Given a floating point number, what is a good guess for the simplest possible algebraic number that approximates this?
E.g. The input 1.4142 gives back sqrt(2) or x^2-2 and says that this is approximates the input on the first four digits. (Of course much more precise guesses would be possible, but a simple one should just do fine.) (I am aware that this is not a Sage-specific question, but when I remember correctly, there was some software mentioned in that thread years ago, which can do this. Maybe I am completely wrong and it was somewhere else; but maybe someone has an idea if such a program exists.) Best wishes Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
