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Free42 with IEEE 754-2008 decimal floating-point -- interested in a sneak preview?
03-02-2014, 08:11 PM
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RE:Free42 with IEEE 754-2008 decimal floating-point -- interested in a sneak preview?
J-F Garnier Wrote:
Werner Wrote:The value of PI is not correct to 34 digits - last digit is an 8 while it should be a 3.
It seems to be a problem with the user pi constant.
in RAD mode, 0 ACOS 2 * gives ... 502, almost the right value.

The issue of the incorrect PI constant seems to also affect ->RAD, ->DEG and (in RAD mode) ->POL. But not ->REC, apparently.
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