%2 NB. floating
0.5
x: %2 NB. extended
1r2
%1j1 NB. floating
0.5j_0.5
x: %1j1 NB. why not extended?
|domain error
| x:%1j1
Den 3:53 lørdag den 9. september 2017 skrev Don Kelly <[email protected]>:
It appears that the verb ^ may be a large part of the problem (as in
14^2). Check NuVoc /vocabulary/Numeric Precision and go the table for
different verbs . This and the division may be floating point in this case
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^ ^. -: % %. inexact (complex if needed),
preserves extended and rational
if result is exact
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Don Kelly
On 2017-09-08 1:36 AM, Raul Miller wrote:
> No: integers do not automatically get converted to extended precision.
>
> Integers simply have sufficient precision for this example.
>
> Thanks,
>
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