On Jul 28, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Peter K. Stys wrote:
Good point Michael. It is disconcerting that Mathematica reports 0's when in fact the values are unknown. I guess you can't even trust the king of math programs.
I don't think the point of Mathematica is to report the Binary representation of a floating point number, but instead the goal is to calculate the numeric value at a greater precision than standard math ops. Mathematica is for scientists and engineers where a precision error of 1.0e-50 could mean the difference between life and death (think NASA).
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