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[Joe Horn]

(09-22-2018 10:05 AM)sasa Wrote:  

(09-22-2018 04:12 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:  No, it's EXACTLY correct, all 44 glorious digits. The decimal number you showed above is EXACTLY what Prime's finite-state approximation of pi in CAS is equal to.

Indeed, there is something wrong here. The 44 digits of PI are:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693

3.1415926535897824578569270670413970947265625 ?

The last quoted result is acceptable only for 48-bits of mantissa...
Perhaps the 'dec' program mix CAS and HOME specific functions?

As its documentation states, the 'dec' program returns the exact DECIMAL equivalent of 48-bit CAS reals. So, yes, dec(pi) returns a number which is the closest 48-bit approximation less than pi. But that's precisely its stated purpose. There only other way to see exactly what you have is to use the CAS command 'format' to see the number in hex, like this: format(pi,"a12").

No, it has nothing to do with mixing CAS and Home. It's purely CAS.