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Theoretically, p could be found using an extension to more
than 2 numbers of the Euclid gcd algorithm. But in practice,
the
are not known to infinite precision, and the
Euclid algorithm is numerically unstable for non integer
numbers. A practical solution could then be to stop the algorithm
when the smallest number is smaller than some
.Otherwise, the spectral window is probably the most efficient
way to find p in this fuzzy environment. p is the inverse
of the smallest
for which
is greater than some
value just below one.
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