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beauty or accuracy

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• Subject: [mg103858] beauty or accuracy
• From: Li Zhengji <zhengji.li at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:18:05 -0400 (EDT)

Hi all,

42500 - 1907.25 = 40592.8 (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=42500+-+1907.25)

I do believe that it is because Mathematica "thinks" it's *better* to
limit the result to six digits, so 0.75 is rounded to 0.8.

But, don't you think that the result is a little strange, or inaccurate?

-- 
Li Zhengji

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