Re: infinities reformulated Chongkai Zhu (31 May 2005 07:17 UTC)
Re: infinities reformulated Aubrey Jaffer (31 May 2005 23:47 UTC)
Re: infinities reformulated Thomas Bushnell BSG (02 Jun 2005 15:23 UTC)
Re: infinities reformulated Aubrey Jaffer (02 Jun 2005 16:12 UTC)
Re: infinities reformulated Thomas Bushnell BSG (02 Jun 2005 16:16 UTC)
string->number Aubrey Jaffer (02 Jun 2005 19:10 UTC)
Re: string->number Thomas Bushnell BSG (02 Jun 2005 20:05 UTC)
Re: string->number Aubrey Jaffer (03 Jun 2005 01:59 UTC)
Re: string->number Thomas Bushnell BSG (03 Jun 2005 02:09 UTC)
Re: string->number Aubrey Jaffer (15 Jun 2005 21:10 UTC)
Re: string->number Thomas Bushnell BSG (16 Jun 2005 15:28 UTC)
Re: string->number bear (16 Jun 2005 16:59 UTC)
Re: string->number Aubrey Jaffer (17 Jun 2005 02:16 UTC)
Re: infinities reformulated bear (04 Jun 2005 16:42 UTC)
Re: infinities reformulated Aubrey Jaffer (17 Jun 2005 02:22 UTC)
Re: infinities reformulated bear (19 Jun 2005 17:19 UTC)
Re: infinities reformulated Aubrey Jaffer (20 Jun 2005 03:10 UTC)
Re: infinities reformulated bear (20 Jun 2005 05:46 UTC)
precise-numbers Aubrey Jaffer (26 Jun 2005 01:50 UTC)

Re: infinities reformulated Aubrey Jaffer 31 May 2005 23:48 UTC

 | Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 15:16:37 +0800
 | From: "Chongkai Zhu" <xxxxxx@citiz.net>
 |
 | I mentioned Mathematica, only for the "inexact number" part of it,
 | not the "symbolic manipluation" part of it. For example, if you
 | want to save the square root of 2 as an inexact number, you can
 | write:
 |
 | v1=1.414
 |
 | the precision or the inexact number v1 is 4 (decimal digits);
 |
 | but you can also write
 |
 | v2=1.414213562373095048801688724209698078569671875376948073176679737990732478462107038850387534327641573
 |
 | and v2 will get precision 100 (all these digits are saved into memory).

So in a Scheme implementation which has "arbitrarily big" precision,
how many digits is (sqrt 2)?  How many digits is (sin 7/5)?