Re: Interesting math

Prai Jei wrote:

Jitze Couperus wrote:
Purl Gurl wrote:

My cheesy Windows calculator returns for (2**63):

9223372036854775808

I haven't checked it out in full but it's got the right "feel" to it - it's
the expected length (nineteen digits) and the last two digits are 08 as
expected for 2**(3 modulo 20), so there's a reasonable chance it's correct.

Cheesy?!? Over in France I picked up another nickname: "Pas de fromage". I
hate the stuff.


Maybe not so cheesy. Standard issue Windows calculator handles
just about everything expected of a scientific calculator.

Microsoft's Power Toy Calculator is nice,

http://www.purlgurl.net/aue/calc.jpg

Precision can be cranked up to 512 bits.


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