Let's vote for suggestions and bugs
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09-23-2018, 09:20 AM
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RE: Let's vote for suggestions and bugs
(09-23-2018 05:39 AM)sasa Wrote:Emphasis mine.(09-23-2018 01:24 AM)Joe Horn Wrote: 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"). Joe insists that all the dec digits represents the pi approximation exactly. The problem is that that after those 14.4 digits the number is wrong. No reason whatsoever for 50 digits yet along 1000 digits. (The algorithm works, though - but it's misused) <sigh> VPN |
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