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11-28-2018, 11:35 PM (This post was last modified: 11-28-2018 11:47 PM by compsystems.)
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RE: Existing CAS commands --> Prime discussion
(11-28-2018 10:28 PM)toml_12953 Wrote:  
(01-21-2018 07:46 PM)harryp Wrote:  My Dad was an engineer and one of his adages, which I think was an engineering philosophy, was that the better is the enemy of the good. We can tinker forever but the longer you tinker the more apt you are to increase complexity and problems. In other words, at some point you say 'good enough' and implement.

LOL! My dad used to say that "good enough" is the enemy of the excellent!
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in GIAC
The output value seems to vary according to the value of epsilon, but do not always yield the same value, therefore it is concluded that exact() and float2rational() are different and not synonymous commands

epsilon:=1E-12:; exact(0.324532453245); float2rational(0.324532453245) ↵ returns
"Done", 1094980201/3374023738, 295/909
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