28/48 Accuracy
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09-16-2022, 12:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-16-2022 12:17 PM by J-F Garnier.)
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RE: 28/48 Accuracy
(09-16-2022 11:31 AM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote: this exhaustive "quick reference" here: https://www.thimet.de/CalcCollection/Cal...erence.pdf gives a figure of 56bits for the mantissa (12 decimal places) and an exponent range of +/-499. This is obviously wrong, 12 decimal places are using 12*4=48 bits. (09-15-2022 10:10 PM)Matt Agajanian Wrote: With the RPL era, what was the internal calculation accuracy?User numeric results have 12 digits, whereas internal calculations are done on 15 digits, for all Saturn-based machines, whatever RPL, RPN, Algebraic or BASIC. And whatever based on System RPL or pure assembly language firmware. The math core is basically unchanged since the HP-71B. J-F |
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28/48 Accuracy - Matt Agajanian - 09-15-2022, 10:10 PM
RE: 28/48 Accuracy - Maximilian Hohmann - 09-16-2022, 11:31 AM
RE: 28/48 Accuracy - J-F Garnier - 09-16-2022 12:16 PM
RE: 28/48 Accuracy - John Keith - 09-16-2022, 03:52 PM
RE: 28/48 Accuracy - Werner - 09-16-2022, 04:20 PM
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