I am creating an image upload form. I want to restrict users from uploading images that are not of the aspect ratio of 16:9. What is the formula for calculating an aspect ratio such as this?
If w = width, h = height, r = ratio
In other words, how is 1920:1080 formulated to an answer of 16:9?
The requirement you specified is
$$\frac{\mathrm{width}}{\mathrm{height}} = \frac{16}9\tag 1$$
However, testing this directly in some computer program is usually a bad idea because the result of the division will be floating-point — and if it is integer, the division is not exact, either. The simplest way around it is by multiplying out $(1)$ so that all divisions disappear and the condition reads:
$$9\cdot\mathrm{width} = 16\cdot \mathrm{height} \tag 2$$
In the example of 1920:1080 = 16:9, the aspect ration fits because:
$$1920\cdot 9 = 17\,280 = 1080\cdot16$$
and the calculation only involves integers, hence there are no rounding or representation errors.
For example, in Python a function that returns True resp. False would read:
def check_aspect (width, height):
return 9 * width == 16 * height
or in C/C++:
int check_aspect (int width, int height)
{
return 9 * width == 16 * height;
}
