On Apr 10, 2007, at 7:43 AM, Raul Miller wrote:

On 4/10/07, John Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> NB. largest less than 1
>>     0j20":   value 1 1022,#. 52#1
>> 0.99999999999999988898
>
> I got a  different answer
>    0j20":_2{unq]1--:^:a: 1
> 0.99999999999999989000



A very long time ago (circa 1986) Larry Breed showed me how to convert values in base 2^x to decimal. It involves finding the "roundest" of possible decimal values.

Eugene
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