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Re: Weird division

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  • Subject: [mg22731] Re: Weird division
  • From: "Kevin J. McCann" <kevin.mccann at jhuapl.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 03:27:16 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, USA
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I believe that this is a display problem. Use Precision on the result, you
will see that it is 16 places. Also if you cut and paste the answer, the
digits will show.

--

Kevin J. McCann
Johns Hopkins University APL


PaulDj <pauldj at brahma.ticam.utexas.edu> wrote in message
news:8b9lp6$941 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hallo,
> do you know why
>
> N[2^25/38,i]=883011.    when i<=16
>
> and only with i>16 the decimal digits come out?
>
> Thanks
> --
> PaulDj
>
> pauldj at ticam.utexas.edu       bientin at matcomp1.imc.pi.cnr.it
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>




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