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Question: I'm curious: How does convert/rational work?

Question:I'm curious: How does convert/rational work?

mmcdara 6730 Maple
rational convert
January 13 2024
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I recently stumbled across this video Why do calculators get this wrong

At some point, the author (Matt Parker) mentions the Farey's algorithm as a way to get a rational approximation of a number between 0 and 1.
Just for fun I applied this algorithm to build increasingly accurate rational approximations of Pi (see here Rational_approximation.mw). 
The rational approximation 

convert(evalf(Pi), rational);
                             104348
                             ------
                             33215

is one of those the Farley's algorithm returns.

Is this pure chance, or does Maple indeed use the Farley's algorithm?
If not, what algorithm does convert/rational use?
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