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Re: number of digits in Maple

Date	2012-01-09 08:32 -0800
From	"Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@speakeasy.org>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.maple
Subject	Re: number of digits in Maple
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pluton wrote:
> but what about the so-called floating point arithmetic? I thought a computer could not store more the 16 digits on average?
? Digits talks about software floating point.  This is not limited to 16 
digits.

True, hardware floating point is limited to something like 16 digits on 
a 32-bit CPU.

I believe Maple uses hardware floating point for some things like plot.

Tom Dean

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number of digits in Maple pluton <plutonesque@gmail.com> - 2012-01-08 14:17 -0800
  Re: number of digits in Maple "Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@speakeasy.org> - 2012-01-08 21:01 -0800
    Re: number of digits in Maple "G. A. Edgar" <edgar@math.ohio-state.edu.invalid> - 2012-01-09 07:00 -0700
      Re: number of digits in Maple pluton <plutonesque@gmail.com> - 2012-01-09 07:31 -0800
        Re: number of digits in Maple "Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@speakeasy.org> - 2012-01-09 08:32 -0800
          Re: number of digits in Maple pluton <plutonesque@gmail.com> - 2012-01-09 12:30 -0800
  Re: number of digits in Maple Axel Vogt <&noreply@axelvogt.de> - 2012-01-09 22:44 +0100
  Re: number of digits in Maple acer <maple@rogers.com> - 2012-01-09 20:43 -0800
    Re: number of digits in Maple pluton <plutonesque@gmail.com> - 2012-01-16 20:45 -0800

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