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Could someone do a calculation on a real 71B?
01-16-2017, 11:14 AM (This post was last modified: 01-16-2017 11:17 AM by Thomas Okken.)
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RE: Could someone do a calculation on a real 71B?
(01-16-2017 10:31 AM)EdS2 Wrote:  It's more enlightening to ask for the sin of a number just below pi, because then you get more digits of pi.

Neat! I never realized that.
It works for the number just above pi, too; you just get the ten's complement of those extra digits:

Code:
10.00000000000E-10
-4.10206761537E-10
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 5.89793238463E-10

I guess the point is that the calculator performs argument reduction using an extended-precision approximation of pi. Next question, for extra credit: how many digits?
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