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Exact value return

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  • Subject: [mg30811] Exact value return
  • From: "Ryan Morris" <rmorris at home.com>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 00:16:55 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi, I don't own mathematica, but I noticed that for functions such as sin
and cos, etc. it can return exact values, such as 1-root 2/3 or something...
I was wondering how it accomplishes this on a code level, thanks for any
information.
-Ryan Morris (M)



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