Subject: Why does this not give a BFLOAT as an answer?
From: Doug Stewart
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:53:02 -0500
You are right I was doing this from Octave and I forgot to include the
fpprec:100; command.
This is fun!!!!!!
Doug Stewart
Richard Fateman wrote:
> It is a bfloat, precision set to bfprec of 14 decimal digits,
> approximately.
>
> Doug Stewart wrote:
>
>> (%i4)
>> BFLOAT(1.960784313725490196078431372549019607843137254901960784313725490196078431372549019607843137254901961B-2)
>> *
>> BFLOAT(1.886792452830188679245283018867924528301886792452830188679245283018867924528301886792452830188679245B-2);
>>
>>
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