Re: [sage-support] Strange behavior with RealField(n)

Le 21/02/2016 20:40, John Cremona a écrit : Try RealField(500).pi() and similar. Yes, it works... but my small piece of code should also give correct results... thanks. t. On 21 Feb 2016 18:10, "Thierry Dumont" > wrote: I

Re: [sage-support] Strange behavior with RealField(n)

Try RealField(500).pi() and similar. On 21 Feb 2016 18:10, "Thierry Dumont" wrote: > I have students who want to compute decimals of pi...so, what can we do > with RealField(n) ? > I make the following script (pi.sage): > > > for p in [2..10]:

[sage-support] Strange behavior with RealField(n)

I have students who want to compute decimals of pi...so, what can we do with RealField(n) ? I make the following script (pi.sage): for p in [2..10]: R=RealField(10^p) pii=4*atan(R(1)) print p,R,pii Then, using sage 7.0 or 7.1.beta4: