Re: RealDigits bug?
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- Subject: [mg45822] Re: RealDigits bug?
- From: drbob at bigfoot.com (Bobby R. Treat)
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 01:53:30 -0500 (EST)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
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