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From: James Waldby on 20 Sep 2009 13:27 [This topic's irrelevant in several of the listed newsgroups, but I didn't trim the list as I don't know where you are reading. You could set followups when you have an egregiously long list of newsgroups.] [See bc results below] On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:39:27 -0700, Autymn D. C. wrote: > I need ye to find e^(π√67) - 5280^3 - 724, at best precision, and post > the answer here and by which program. Other/Older versions of the same > are welcome. [...] > Google: 19.9992676 > Grapher 1.0 aka Curvus Pro (2005, 14 digits): 19.99960327148438 Graphing > Calculator 1.3, aka NuCalc (14 digits): 19.999816894531 Calculator 4.0.6 > (2005, X.iv.xii, 16 digits): 19.9998168945312 Magic Number Machine > 1.0.11 (2004, 21 of 24 digits): 19.99999866245422449603 > Magic Number Machine 1.0.30 (2009, 20 of 24 digits): > 19.99999866245422449622; er, where's the 25th digit it advertises? or > the 23d? Why are the significant figures not the same as the digits? .... Here are some bc 1.06 results per my linux 2.6 system. Probably about 45 digits of the 60-digit result are correct, and about 107 digits of the 120-digit result, by comparison with the leading digits of the 180-digit result. scale=60; pi=4*a(1); e(pi*sqrt(67)) - 5280^3 - 724 19.999998662454224506829261312578628508183312503815806586355322 scale=120; pi=4*a(1); e(pi*sqrt(67)) - 5280^3 - 724 19.999998662454224506829261312578628508183312503816712633371282105122950998831523502041379242353370629039564711064649074090 scale=180; pi=4*a(1); e(pi*sqrt(67)) - 5280^3 - 724 19.9999986624542245068292613125786285081833125038167126333712821051229509988315235020413792423533706290395647152488070416966... Here are two of your values, lined up with bc's for comparison: 19.99999866245422449603 19.99999866245422449622 19.9999986624542245068292613125786285081833125038167... -- jiw |