#12120: Improve documentation of numerical_approx()
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   Reporter:  saraedum       |          Owner:  mvngu      
       Type:  enhancement    |         Status:  needs_work 
   Priority:  trivial        |      Milestone:  sage-4.8   
  Component:  documentation  |       Keywords:             
Work_issues:                 |       Upstream:  N/A        
   Reviewer:                 |         Author:  Julian Rüth
     Merged:                 |   Dependencies:             
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Changes (by eviatarbach):

  * status:  needs_review => needs_work


Comment:

 Yes, I'll create another patch.

 However, could you change the wording from "numerical instability"? This
 suggests there is something wrong. I like how Julian Rüth explained it:
 "This approximates both pi and 3 with two bits of precision and then
 computes their difference".

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