IIRC if the answers match to six decimal places, they are considered equal.

On 8 April 2012 19:44, Sachin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:

> BigDecimal in java can store it. The statement
>  System.out.println(x.toString());  shows the value with 48 decimal places,
> do we need more than that.
>
>
> On Sunday, April 8, 2012, Luke Pebody wrote:
>
>> The numeric types used by programming languages are not accurate enough
>> to keep the full decimal expansion of 3+sqrt(5). As such, numerical
>> inaccuracies will turn up.
>>  On 8 Apr 2012 13:58, "Sachin Gupta" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> can anyone please check why this code is giving wrong answers. I've
>>> checked the solutions each of them uses recursion to solve the problem.
>>> http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/32016/dashboard#s=p2
>>>
>>> import java.io.*;
>>> import java.math.*;
>>> import java.util.*;
>>>
>>> public class Main {
>>> public static void main (String args[]) throws Exception
>>> { BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("C:\\downloads\\
>>> c-small-practice.in"));
>>>   BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("C:\\downloads\\
>>> c-output.in"));
>>>   int t = Integer.parseInt(in.readLine());
>>>   BigDecimal x = new BigDecimal(Math.sqrt(5));
>>>   x = x.add(BigDecimal.valueOf(3));
>>>   System.out.println(x.toString());
>>>   for (int i=1;i<=t;i++)
>>>   { int n = Integer.parseInt(in.readLine());
>>>     BigDecimal bd ;
>>>     bd = x;
>>>     bd = bd.pow(n);
>>>    // System.out.println(bd);
>>>    // System.out.println(bd.toBigInteger());
>>>     Formatter fmt = new Formatter();
>>>     fmt.format("%03d",bd.toBigInteger());
>>>    // System.out.println(fmt);
>>>
>>>     StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(fmt.toString());
>>>    // System.out.println(sb.substring(sb.length()-3,sb.length()));
>>>     out.write("Case #"+i+": "+sb.substring(sb.length()-3,sb.length()));
>>>     out.newLine();
>>>   }
>>>   out.close();
>>>  }
>>> }
>>>
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