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[CyberAngel]

(09-23-2018 01:33 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:  

(09-22-2018 10:10 AM)CyberAngel Wrote:  Approximation... rounded to 14 digits it's correct.

Yes. Or, more precisely, a binary floating-point approximation of pi truncated to 48 bits (which is what reals in CAS are limited to), it's the closest CAS can get to pi, and the 'dec' program reveals exactly what that approximation is equal to.

If you understand the above, you can answer both of these questions:
(1) Why doesn't dec(0.1) return a "clean" decimal result?
(2) Why DOES dec(0.5) return a "clean" decimal result?

Yes, I can.
As a nerd I count easily for in
10 ways :
binary and decimal
Division and anything after the binary point
is slightly more difficult,
but repeated subtraction
and memorized previous conversions help.
2^¯¹ or .1 is easy (2)
but (1) requires quite a lot binimals...
I'd rather give you 0.01 or 5²/10²

I wonder if people will follow this easily
since I left out dec and bin tags