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03-02-2014, 10:22 AM (This post was last modified: 03-02-2014 10:23 AM by J-F Garnier.)
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RE: Free42 with IEEE 754-2008 decimal floating-point -- interested in a sneak preview
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.
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