From: David Cantrell
Date: 14:05 on 30 Nov 2005
Subject: calc: C-style arbitrary precision calculator
; iroot(90872395726983750274650285408174305827346085726340587260384650287435,3)
44958380568752795591117
; 44958380568752795591117^3
90872395726983750274646170108413760218858681308600137573915168198613
Grrr.
From: Juerd Date: 14:20 on 30 Nov 2005 Subject: Re: calc: C-style arbitrary precision calculator David Cantrell skribis 2005-11-30 14:05 (+0000): > ; iroot(90872395726983750274650285408174305827346085726340587260384650287435,3) > 44958380568752795591117 > ; 44958380568752795591117^3 > 90872395726983750274646170108413760218858681308600137573915168198613 I guess your definitions of "abritrary" are unaligned. Juerd
From: David Cantrell Date: 16:49 on 30 Nov 2005 Subject: Re: calc: C-style arbitrary precision calculator On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:20:04PM +0100, Juerd wrote: > David Cantrell skribis 2005-11-30 14:05 (+0000): > > ; iroot(90872395726983750274650285408174305827346085726340587260384650287435,3) > > 44958380568752795591117 > > ; 44958380568752795591117^3 > > 90872395726983750274646170108413760218858681308600137573915168198613 > I guess your definitions of "abritrary" are unaligned. The documentation tells me that if it truncates for display purposes, it will tell me by preceding the result with ~. Which it didn't do.
From: Peter da Silva Date: 17:17 on 30 Nov 2005 Subject: Re: calc: C-style arbitrary precision calculator On Nov 30, 2005, at 10:49 AM, David Cantrell wrote: > The documentation tells me that if it truncates for display purposes, > it > will tell me by preceding the result with ~. Which it didn't do. That's because the result wasn't truncated. You used "iroot", not "root".
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