On Apr 29, 9:51 am, mark mcclure <mcmcc...@unca.edu> wrote: > > On the other hand, I'll happily go on record as saying that I find > Wolfram's explanation of "Why You Do Not Usually Need to Know > about Internals" personally offensive. You can read that > here:http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/WhyYouDoNotUsuallyN... > > The funny thing about that statement is that no one who believes > it could possibly be inquisitive enough to be employed in a > technical position at Wolfram in the first place. I honestly > assume that virtually nobody there believes it.
One interesting thing from this page, though: In[7]:= N[Sin[10^50], 20] Out[7]= -0.78967... (I can't copy and paste from that page, but this is how the number starts) In[8] := Sin[10.^50] Out[8] := 0.669369 Sage doesn't get the right answer here (assuming that -0.78967... is the right answer): sage: sin(10^50).n (10) 0.74 sage: sin(10^50).n (20) 0.82842 sage: sin(10^50).n (40) -0.052373001636 sage: sin(10^50).n (80) 0.90620599081868764998830 sage: sin (10.^50) -0.480500143493759 John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
