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Standard maths with the IEEE-754 hardware floats fails predictably (that code left in as comments), so roll out the bigatoms.<br> |
Standard maths with the IEEE-754 hardware floats fails predictably (that code left in as comments), so roll out the bigatoms.<br> |
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Task1: needs at least 120 decimal places to avoid serious divergance, and 196 to be accurate to 78 digits<br> |
Task1: needs at least 120 decimal places to avoid serious divergance, and 196 to be accurate to 78 digits<br> |