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Re: printing accuracy

• Posted by Cameron Kaiser <spectre at WWW2.BUOY.COM> May 06, 1998
• 807 views

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering how to print numbers with precision to lots of decimal
> places, like a hundred or so. Is it possible to calculate pi to 100 or
> more decimal places and print the result on the screen.  All I've been
> able to do is 15 places and after that it is all zeros so I think it
> rounds it.  Is there a way to make it set the default or something to
> carry out as far as I want?
>

At that point I would resort to stringified numbers (see Perl's BigInt and
BigFloat modules for examples). However, this would be a bit slower, and would
also involve writing your own routines.

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