[sage-support] Re: decimal expansions of constants

2007-04-17 Thread Timothy Clemans
not log2(10) but log(10,2) {{{ R = RealField(round(log(10,2)*200)) len(str(R(pi))) /// 200 }}} On 4/17/07, Timothy Clemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm confused about what to do. > > {{{ > R = RealField(round(log2(10)*200)) > len(str(R(pi))) > /// > 42 > }}} > > It would be nice if there was

[sage-support] Re: decimal expansions of constants

2007-04-17 Thread Timothy Clemans
I'm confused about what to do. {{{ R = RealField(round(log2(10)*200)) len(str(R(pi))) /// 42 }}} It would be nice if there was a SAGE way to easily get pi to say 200 binary places or 200 decimal places. maybe: pi.str(2,places=200) On 4/17/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/1

[sage-support] Re: decimal expansions of constants

2007-04-17 Thread William Stein
On 4/17/07, Timothy Clemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.sagemath.org/hg/sage-main?f=258cf90b118f;file=sage/functions/constants.py > > "We can obtain floating point approximations to each of these constants > by coercing into the real field with given precision. For example, to > 200