Subject: strange behaviour with simple decimals / Axiom
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:54:35 -0700
In Axiom version of 1/17/2005
1.4^2 comes out as 1.96
1.96 - 1.4^2 comes out as 0.7 E -20
I don't know if this counts as unexpected to a 5th grader, but does a
5th grader even know about "E" scientific notation?