Re: RealDigits bug?
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- Subject: [mg46016] Re: RealDigits bug?
- From: drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat)
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 05:21:33 -0500 (EST)
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No, Enrique asked for 6000 digits of precision, and that's what Mathematica would give him. So, %MaxMachineNumber isn't the problem. Bobby adam.smith at hillsdale.edu (Adam Smith) wrote in message news:<bv82tq$i97$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > Bobby, > > What version of Mathematica are you using? I am running Version 4.1 > and it does not include 10 in the Frequencies list > > In[3]:= > Frequencies[First[RealDigits[ pisot]]] > > > Out[3]= > {{2089,0},{422,1},{427,2},{434,3},{467,4},{444,5},{452,6},{447,7},{437, > 8},{381,9}} > > > In response to Enrique. I suspect that the failure is related to a > misunderstanding of the N[] function. In particular look in the Help > for N[] and study the $MaxMachineNumber and $MaxPrecision. Since your > pisot is on the order of 10^3340, you may be running into truncation > errors with N[]. On my machine $MaxMachineNumber is around 10^308. > Since pisot is clearly much greater than this, I would expect > truncation errors. > > Adam Smith > > drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat) wrote in message news:<bv2g1t$68$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > > I don't know whether the equality should be true, but it's very clear > > that 10 isn't a base-10 digit! > > > > Frequencies[First[RealDigits[ > > pisot]]] > > {{2086, 0}, {422, 1}, > > {427, 2}, {434, 3}, > > {467, 4}, {444, 5}, > > {452, 6}, {447, 7}, > > {437, 8}, {381, 9}, {3, 10}} > > > > Bobby > > > > Enrique Zeleny <ezeleny at fismat1.fcfm.buap.mx> wrote in message news:<bv00g1$je7$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > > > This is wrong: > > > > > > In[1]:= pisot = N[((1/3)*((1/2)*(27 + 3*Sqrt[69]))^(1/3) + (2/(27 + > > > 3*Sqrt[69]))^(1/3))^27351, 6000]; > > > > > > In[2]:= pisot == FromDigits[RealDigits[pisot]] > > > > > > Out[2]:= False > > > > > > If you look at the value returned by RealDigits[pisot] contains three > > > 10's!!! > > > > > > > > > Enrique Zeleny > > > Universidad Autonoma de Puebla > > > Mexico