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[Edu-sig] Re: arbitrary precision computing in K-12

2020-02-02 Thread A. Jorge Garcia via Edu-sig
And here's BigInteger at work finding large Mersene Primes. https://youtu.be/-Snd7a55FrE I'm gonna have to do the same in python with Decimal. What about the N() method in SAGE and numpy? Regards, Al ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​ On Feb 2, 2020, 19:18, at 19:18, kirby urner wrote: >Hi Jorge -- > >I

[Edu-sig] Re: arbitrary precision computing in K-12

2020-02-02 Thread A. Jorge Garcia via Edu-sig
Here's how I used BigDecimal to find Phi, https://youtu.be/snk2IN3B2RI HTH, Al ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​ On Feb 2, 2020, 19:18, at 19:18, kirby urner wrote: >Hi Jorge -- > >I agree, it'd be interesting to apply a Riemann Sum algorithm using >arbitrary precision as the number crunching type, versus

[Edu-sig] Re: arbitrary precision computing in K-12

2020-02-02 Thread A. Jorge Garcia via Edu-sig
Wow, Kirby, that's great! I've done something similar in java using the BigInteger class. I have to try the Decimal module in python! Looks like fun. I'm going to have to see how this works with MPI. Thanx, Al ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​ On Feb 2, 2020, 19:18, at 19:18, kirby urner wrote: >Hi

[Edu-sig] Re: arbitrary precision computing in K-12

2020-02-02 Thread kirby urner
Hi Jorge -- I agree, it'd be interesting to apply a Riemann Sum algorithm using arbitrary precision as the number crunching type, versus IEEE754. Freed from FORTRAN, you would have that option. I'll do it now... [ sometime later ] Here's a sandbox version: https://repl.it/@kurner/computepi