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Re: Re: An arithmetic puzzle, equality of numbers.

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  • Subject: [mg103128] Re: [mg103125] Re: An arithmetic puzzle, equality of numbers.
  • From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 04:40:33 -0400 (EDT)
  • Reply-to: hanlonr at cox.net

It is also useful to look at the FullForm

For[i = 1.11111111111111111, i > 0, Print[i = 2*i - i,
  " FullForm ", FullForm[i]]]


Bob Hanlon

---- Harutyun Amirjanyan <amirjanyan at gmail.com> wrote: 

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its same on 7 and I think must be the same on future versions

Precision[1.1111111111111111]
 smallest number of 1s
Precision[1.11111111111111111]
For[i = 1.11111111111111111, i > 0,
 Print[i = 2*i - i, " precision ", Precision[i]]]




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