Project Euler：Problem 71 Ordered fractions

Consider the fraction, n/d, where n and d are positive integers. If n<d and HCF(n,d)=1, it is called a reduced proper fraction.

If we list the set of reduced proper fractions for d ≤ 8 in ascending order of size, we get:

1/8, 1/7, 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, 2/7, 1/3, 3/8, 2/5, 3/7, 1/2, 4/7, 3/5, 5/8, 2/3, 5/7, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 6/7, 7/8

It can be seen that 2/5 is the fraction immediately to the left of 3/7.

By listing the set of reduced proper fractions for d ≤ 1,000,000 in ascending order of size, find the numerator of the fraction immediately to the left of 3/7.

p/q < 3/7  ==>  7p<3q   ==> 7p<=3q -1  ==> p=floor((3q-1)/7)

将当前最接近3/7的分数保存为r/s   如果 r/s <p/q  即 r*q < p*s   则把p,q分别赋值给r,s

import math
a=3
b=7
r=0
s=1
for q in range(2,1000000):
    p=math.floor((a*q-1)/b)
    if r*q < s*p:
        r=p
        s=q
print('r = ',r)
print('s = ',s)