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Re: a numeric bug.
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Re: a numeric bug.


  • Subject: Re: a numeric bug.
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:13:08 +0200

At 9:05 AM +0100 9/15/05, has wrote:

deivy petrescu wrote:

I don't get it. 10^23 is way below AS numeric limit (which I believe is over 10^300).

The precision limit is much lower, however - approx. ±9e15. Beyond that they're only approximations, and calculations involving the least significant digits are going to have inaccuracies.

I think that Deivy's point is that when it comes to take the "mod" a smart computer storing 1.000 as the mantissa and 24 as the exponent of 10 should be able to give the correct result. I am not a specialist in maths, but I think that "mod" is special for that.


Emmanuel
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