Re: Phix 1.0.2 uploaded
- Posted by katsmeow Mar 25, 2023
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petelomax said...
What it's done is printed off a number as "9.999999" (note 6 d.p.) before realising it wants rounding,
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"10.000000" is not equal to "9.999999". I realise there's a lot of rounding and tomfoolery in modern computers in using different numeric bases, but what if he wants to know how a computer makes the mistake of being 0.000000000000000001 wrong, shouldn't they be allowed to do so? That is, turn off rounding?
I tried a problem on the Win7 calc, using 5.4470587526855054275613675858572 as the log of 279,936 , it gave me 5.9999999999999999999999999999999 as the 7th root of 279,936. I am glad it did NOT round to 6 when i introduced the error.
Still, Phix blows my lil mind.
Kat
