"Why do calculators get this wrong?" (YouTube)
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07-20-2020, 12:25 PM
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RE: "Why do calculators get this wrong?" (YouTube)
(07-19-2020 03:24 PM)EdS2 Wrote: ... I see a commenter has found that the denominator needs to be a factor of 25200 for the search to work. Perhaps Casio is not going for "best" rational approximation, but simply multiply by 25200/pi lua> k = 25200/pi -- ≈ 8021.409131831525 lua> 11^6/13 * k 1093108890.9997375 lua> 11^6/17 * k 835906798.9997994 Rounded to 13 digits, first number is integer, but not the second → 11^6/13 ≈ 1093108891/25200 * pi = 156158413/3600 * pi |
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