On 18/02/23 7:42 am, Richard Damon wrote:
On 2/17/23 5:27 AM, Stephen Tucker wrote:
None of the digits in RootNZZZ's string should be different from the
corresponding digits in RootN.
Only if the storage format was DECIMAL.
Note that using decimal wouldn't eliminate this particular problem,
since 1/3 isn't exactly representable in decimal either.
To avoid it you would need to use an algorithm that computes nth
roots directly rather than raising to the power 1/n.
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