Re: precision on all calcs
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Re: precision on all calcs
Get a clue already . . . .
180*sin(1) will NEVER equal pi. No matter what mode you're
calculational device is in.
Jeff Bunds
bunds@students.uiuc.edu
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Neil Padgett wrote:
> Jeff Tyrrill <Jeff_Tyrrill@MSN.COM> muttered:
>
> ->I just realized something. Even in degree mode, 180*sin(1) does not
> exactly
> ->equal pi. It differs in the ten-thousandth place, and if it were pi,
> the TI-92
> ->would give that as an answer, but it doesn't. Oh well. I'll bet
> changing to
> ->degree mode solves his problem anyway.
> ->________________
> [CLIP]
>
> I've had a similar problem. I was plotting various sine waves
> (representing sound waves) I was then working with them to plot the
> beats which would result from two similar waves. It would work for
> some waves, but for others the graph was jsut plain wrong.
>
> Neil Padgett
>
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