#8896: 0.0000000000000000000000000000 is parsed completely differently than
1.0000000000000000000000000000 for no good reason
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Reporter: was | Owner: AlexGhitza
Type: defect | Status: needs_info
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-4.7.1
Component: basic arithmetic | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: Mariah Lenox | Author: Robert Bradshaw
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Comment(by jdemeyer):
Replying to [comment:29 robertwb]:
> to me the fact that 0.00000000000000000000000000000000 is not high
precision is more surprising, as it has many significant digits.
I would say that it does have a lot of ''digits'' but that none of them is
a ''significant digit''.
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