A much more interesting example is this (in Maxima) fpprec:16 sin (bfloat(2)^10000)
-6.104079172368958b-1 which is correct to 16 decimal places. Making this work by adding in more terms in the taylor series for sine would be a very bad idea. Instead, the sine routine first compute pi to 10016 or more decimal places. I assume mpfr does such things. I hope you do such things in python numerics. RJF --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
