Re: Weird division
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- Subject: [mg22731] Re: Weird division
- From: "Kevin J. McCann" <kevin.mccann at jhuapl.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 03:27:16 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, USA
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I believe that this is a display problem. Use Precision on the result, you will see that it is 16 places. Also if you cut and paste the answer, the digits will show. -- Kevin J. McCann Johns Hopkins University APL PaulDj <pauldj at brahma.ticam.utexas.edu> wrote in message news:8b9lp6$941 at smc.vnet.net... > Hallo, > do you know why > > N[2^25/38,i]=883011. when i<=16 > > and only with i>16 the decimal digits come out? > > Thanks > -- > PaulDj > > pauldj at ticam.utexas.edu bientin at matcomp1.imc.pi.cnr.it > ------------------------------------------------------------ >