Author: Jeff Lischer
Date: 19:09:48 12/20/01
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On December 20, 2001 at 21:51:05, Jeff Lischer wrote: >On December 20, 2001 at 16:03:20, Mark Rawlings wrote: > >>On December 20, 2001 at 12:31:15, Russell Reagan wrote: >> >>> >>>>19 digits? Mathematica, I bet. >>>>For example with some extra digits: >>>>0.99999999999975627480510404900525861510667303701087219308733962213950724888413291966890187704334949365014155368089824937877706435503620493199502482554795304042249335192649401387676425148646953751888287106 >>> >>>What is Mathematica? I have heard of it before, but I have never seen it. Is it >>>free or do you have to pay for it? >> >>Yes, you have to pay a _lot_ for it. It's a great math software package, >>though. Check out www.wolfram.com >> >>Mark > >If you want to try out a similar program for a bit less money, there's a program >that does many of the same things that's FREE. The program Maxima is the GPL >version of the (now defunct) commercial code MACSYMA. If you are interested, you >can get more information at: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/maxima.html. There's a lot >of work going on right now with Maxima. > >The only problem... when I tried this problem in Maxima I got: > >0.999999999999756195023792375064377926992845952318279229168490989 >6753555545693582494442629223652043958 > >As you can see that's slightly different than given above. I can't say which is >correct. I little better job and now I get: 0.99999999999975627479857105667543868497549214733123. That's a little closer.
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