is Python-syntax-in-CAS less accurate than PPL?

[John Keith]

(10-01-2018 05:47 AM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  Hello,

CAS uses 56 bit floating point numbers (64 bits with 8 bits being taken over for some other information). Thus leading to a somewhat low precision (the idea being that if you want precision, you can use integers)...

PPL uses 64 bits BCD reals with 12 digits of mantissa.

So, PPL will always have higher precision on floating points than the CAS... Python or otherwise.

Cyrille

That's why it would be really great if the Prime CAS had something like LongFloat or the variable-precision floats of NewRPL.