Male, brown hair, white shirt: Our ratio of computers to support engineers is about 150. Each engineer can look after 150 computers and if we bring on a customer with 300 users, that tells us that ...

A systematic method for obtaining the best possible approximation of a given ratio makes use of some of the properties of continued fractions. Although the procedure involved is more lengthy than ...

As an aid to the application and understanding of this same general method, a modified semi-graphical procedure is now presented. The semi-graphical approach is also based on continued fractions.