For every denominator from `1` to `1 000 000` we generate a possible fraction where the numerator is `(d * 3) / 7`. (Every other fraction is either greater than `3/7` or has a greater difference than the generated). Now everything thats left is finding the fraction with the smallest difference to `3/7`. The difference of two fractions is calculated (without floating points) by: ~~~ n1/d1 - n2/d2 == (n1*d2 - n2*d1)/(d1*d2) ~~~ The rest is just iterating through all the possible fractions and in each step remembering the current best. We don't even need to reduce the result to get a *proper* fraction. If it could be reduced we would have got the reduced version first. (Because it has an smaller denominator).