Re: Precision of a number raised to a power
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- Subject: [mg73546] Re: Precision of a number raised to a power
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:55:22 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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Hi,
Table[Precision[(2.0`18)^i], {i, 1, 10}]
Regards
Jens
Sonya wrote:
> Hallo
> I am new to Mathematica and I am thankful to any help regarding the following.
> If I have something like a^b . The a is any arbitrary decimal number (let us say of precision double) the b are numbers from 1-10 (exact numbers without a point).
> What will be the precision of the above expression after raising a to the powers from 1-10.
>
> Many thanks in advance
> Sonya
>