Re: When integers go bad

Also, that's a questionable example because SC doesn't do integer
exponentiation.

(2**6).asCompileString
64.0

I think (??) many other languages behave similarly... but not totally sure.

hjh

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Julian Rohrhuber
<rohrhuber@...> wrote:
> before you get infinities, you get degraded precision.
>
>  a = 3; b = 2147483647.0; b ** a ** (1/a) - b
>
>  -2.6226043701172e-06


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