/// <summary>
/// The function reduces(simplifies) a Fraction object by dividing both its numerator
/// and denominator by their GCD
/// </summary>
public static void ReduceFraction(Fraction frac)
{
try
{
if (frac.Numerator==0)
{
frac.Denominator=1;
return;
}
long iGCD=GCD(frac.Numerator, frac.Denominator);
frac.Numerator/=iGCD;
frac.Denominator/=iGCD;
if ( frac.Denominator<0 ) // if -ve sign in denominator
{
//pass -ve sign to numerator
frac.Numerator*=-1;
frac.Denominator*=-1;
}
} // end try
catch(Exception exp)
{
throw new FractionException("Cannot reduce Fraction: " + exp.Message);
}
}
private static Fraction Multiply(Fraction frac1, Fraction frac2)
{
try
{
checked
{
long iNumerator=frac1.Numerator*frac2.Numerator;
long iDenominator=frac1.Denominator*frac2.Denominator;
return ( new Fraction(iNumerator, iDenominator) );
}
}
catch(OverflowException)
{
throw new FractionException("Overflow occurred while performing arithemetic operation");
}
catch(Exception)
{
throw new FractionException("An error occurred while performing arithemetic operation");
}
}
/// <summary>
/// internal function for negation
/// </summary>
private static Fraction Negate(Fraction frac1)
{
long iNumerator=-frac1.Numerator;
long iDenominator=frac1.Denominator;
return ( new Fraction(iNumerator, iDenominator) );
}
/// <summary>
/// The function returns the inverse of a Fraction object
/// </summary>
public static Fraction Inverse(Fraction frac1)
{
if (frac1.Numerator==0)
throw new FractionException("Operation not possible (Denominator cannot be assigned a ZERO Value)");
long iNumerator=frac1.Denominator;
long iDenominator=frac1.Numerator;
return ( new Fraction(iNumerator, iDenominator));
}
/// <summary>
/// The function replicates current Fraction object
/// </summary>
public Fraction Duplicate()
{
Fraction frac=new Fraction();
frac.Numerator=Numerator;
frac.Denominator=Denominator;
return frac;
}
/// <summary>
/// The function takes a floating point number as an argument
/// and returns its corresponding reduced fraction
/// </summary>
public static Fraction ToFraction(double dValue)
{
try
{
checked
{
Fraction frac;
if (dValue%1==0) // if whole number
{
frac=new Fraction( (long) dValue );
}
else
{
double dTemp=dValue;
long iMultiple=1;
string strTemp=dValue.ToString();
while ( strTemp.IndexOf("E")>0 ) // if in the form like 12E-9
{
dTemp*=10;
iMultiple*=10;
strTemp=dTemp.ToString();
}
int i=0;
while ( strTemp[i]!='.' )
i++;
int iDigitsAfterDecimal=strTemp.Length-i-1;
while ( iDigitsAfterDecimal>0 )
{
dTemp*=10;
iMultiple*=10;
iDigitsAfterDecimal--;
}
frac=new Fraction( (int)Math.Round(dTemp) , iMultiple );
}
return frac;
}
}
catch(OverflowException)
{
throw new FractionException("Conversion not possible due to overflow");
}
catch(Exception)
{
throw new FractionException("Conversion not possible");
}
}
