gnucash/libgnucash/doc/gnc-numeric-example.txt
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- /libgnucash (for the non-gui bits)
- /gnucash (for the gui)
- /common (misc source files used by both)
- /bindings (currently only holds python bindings)

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/** \page gncnumericexample gnc_numeric Example
\section example EXAMPLE
The following program finds the best ::gnc_numeric approximation to
the \a math.h constant \a M_PI given a maximum denominator. For
large denominators, the ::gnc_numeric approximation is accurate to
more decimal places than will generally be needed, but in some cases
this may not be good enough. For example,
@verbatim
M_PI = 3.14159265358979323846
245850922 / 78256779 = 3.14159265358979311599 (16 sig figs)
3126535 / 995207 = 3.14159265358865047446 (12 sig figs)
355 / 113 = 3.14159292035398252096 (7 sig figs)
@endverbatim
@verbatim
#include <glib.h>
#include <qof.h>
#include <math.h>
int
main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
gnc_numeric approx, best;
double err, best_err=1.0;
double m_pi = M_PI;
gint64 denom;
gint64 max;
sscanf(argv[1], "%Ld", &max);
for (denom = 1; denom < max; denom++)
{
approx = double_to_gnc_numeric (m_pi, denom, GNC_RND_ROUND);
err = m_pi - gnc_numeric_to_double (approx);
if (fabs (err) < fabs (best_err))
{
best = approx;
best_err = err;
printf ("%Ld / %Ld = %.30f\n", gnc_numeric_num (best),
gnc_numeric_denom (best), gnc_numeric_to_double (best));
}
}
}
@endverbatim
*/