At 10:14 PM Friday 9/22/2006, David Hobby wrote:
... Especially when you subtract two nearly equal numbers.
Computers do, but do no programming environments take account of
this, by marking recurring numbers as such?
Anyone know how Mathematica works?
-- Ronn! :)
Ronn--
I believe it avoids decimal approximations unless they are
specifically asked for. Rational numbers would always be
represented internally as pairs of integers. And this
continues; almost everything is represented symbolically.
So (1 + sqrt(2))^2 is exactly 3 + 2*sqrt(2), etc.
---David
As one would expect from the name, Maru
I thought it was something of the sort, but I figured someone else
here might know better than I do. (I've been a good little boy and
not attempted to reverse engineer the copy I have here. :P As to
finding the book in all this stuff, I'm not sure I'd have an idea
where to start more exact than the room it's most likely in . . . :( )
-- Ronn! :)
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