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The most accurate scientific calculator??
12-04-2018, 12:34 AM
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RE: The most accurate scientific calculator??
Thanks for the article
Quote:It is still possible for previously displayed digits to change as we are scrolling.
But we always compute a number of digits more than we actually need, so this is exceedingly unlikely.

Since our goal is an error of strictly less than one in the last displayed digit,
we will never, for example, display an answer of exactly 2 as 1.9999999999.
That would involve an error of exactly one in the last place, which is too much for us.

From the description, precision is great, but not good enough for title "most accurate"

I believe the winner goes to spigot
All outputted digits are guaranteed correct

If precision is not supplied, it will run forever (until memory are exhausted) Big Grin
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RE: The most accurate scientific calculator?? - Albert Chan - 12-04-2018 12:34 AM



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