On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 at 10:13AM -0800, eliot brenner wrote:
> Is there a way to make all floating point calculations within a
> program or session occur to a fixed precision, say 500 digits? I know
> how to issue commands like
>
> R500 = RealField(500) #set up 500 bit precision arithmetic
> R500(
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:13 AM, eliot brenner wrote:
> Is there a way to make all floating point calculations within a
> program or session occur to a fixed precision, say 500 digits? I know
> how to issue commands like
>
> R500 = RealField(500) #set up 500 bit precision arithmetic
> R500(pi)
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:13 PM, eliot brenner wrote:
> Is there a way to make all floating point calculations within a
> program or session occur to a fixed precision, say 500 digits? I know
> how to issue commands like
>
> R500 = RealField(500) #set up 500 bit precision arithmetic
> R500(pi)
Is there a way to make all floating point calculations within a
program or session occur to a fixed precision, say 500 digits? I know
how to issue commands like
R500 = RealField(500) #set up 500 bit precision arithmetic
R500(pi)
etc. for an individual calculation. But it would be preferable t