Geoff - J's extended precision applies to integers only. If you think about it, you'll see that while it's relatively simple to make integers arbitrarily large, floating point is a much more difficult proposition: how would you know when to stop in the potentially infinite expansion of a floating point number? Even something as simple as %3 is a problem.
This restriction to integers is why something like Ahmad's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2x*10x^200 works: "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]:" applies both the square root and enforces the integer limitation at the same time. On 2/26/07, Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(this is my first J code) I'm executing this to get the square root of 2: x:%:x:2e100 I also tried: <.((%:2)*10^100) In both cases I'm looking for extended precision (100 places if J supports it). In both cases it appears the digits take a left turn about 20 digits in -- they don't match publicly available resources on the web. Is there something else I should be doing, or is there a limit to J's precision? Thanks! Geoff ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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