Re[2]: Maybe offtopic maybe not
- Posted by aku at inbox.as Feb 24, 2001
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Thanks very much.. and thanks also for 1000 decimal pi 1. How can I find the near-to-exact value of pi in decimal mode (the algorithm)? 2. Can eu use a more value than using 8byte floating point but not using string numbers? >> In Windows calculator (calc.exe), (scientific mode) >> if we click on "pi" the display is: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 >> Then click "-", and select Edit/Copy. then select Edit/Paste. >> >> So 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 subtract >> 3.141592653589793238462643383279 (no "5" in the display). >> >> then click "=". >> >> I get the result is 5.0288419716939931148196659300057e-31 >> >> and so on ... r> The correct answer up to 10e-62 is: r> 5.0288419716939937510582097494459e-31 r> in comparison to your result: r> 5.0288419716939931148196659300057e-31 r> See the difference?! So far to accuracy. r> Have a nice day, Rolf r> PS: r> If you want to find it out yourself, here is PI up to about 1000 decimal r> digits. You can never represent the true value of PI by decimal r> numbers! r> Here are the first 1000 digits of PI in decimal representation (but what r> for?): r> 182332! 05903595386938