Why does Intelligent math give this strange answer?

[John Keith]

(02-26-2024 02:26 PM)rawi Wrote:  I tried with (1+1/100)^100 and I got 2,70481..E200/1E200.

So this seems to be an overflow.

If you put in (1-1/365)^365 and use the approx key (blue - enter) you get 2.71456748459.

The HP50 gets the same answer which is notably less accurate than the TI.

EVALuating the expression in exact mode returns, after a long calculation, a fraction with 936-digit numerator and denominator. Converting to an approximate number also returns 1. However, taking the first 20 digits of the numerator and denominator, dividing and converting to approximate, return the correct value 2.71456748202.

Clearly the Prime and the HP50 both have problems with fractions having very large terms.