Re: Politically incorrect response to Re: a bug in RealDigits? Mathematica 5.0
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- Subject: [mg45286] Re: Politically incorrect response to Re: a bug in RealDigits? Mathematica 5.0
- From: Harold.Noffke at wpafb.af.mil (Harold Noffke)
- Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 05:10:46 -0500 (EST)
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AC: Could you please elaborate on your comment ... > Because MachinePrecision depends on the underlying hardware > architecture, Mathematica programs are hardware dependent! I had the notion that any problem could be set-up in Mathematica using variables with arbitrary (user-specified) precision, but perhaps I misunderstand the passage where I read this. Please help me clarify this. Harold