Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Bug#263991: axiom: wrong calculation ofsqrt(2.)

[William Sit]

> Heiko Scheit <address@hidden> writes:
> [snipped]
>   echo "digits(DIGITS); sqrt(2.)" | axiom
> One can see that for
> > DIGITS=121278-121280 the result is not correct.  For 121290 digits the
> > result is OK again.  As reference the output of Mathematica is given
> > in the last row.
> >
> > DIGITS    |         result
> > --------------------------------
> > 121275    |    8347436383 149
> > 121276    |    8347436383 14897
> > 121277    |    8347436383 148974
> > 121278    |    8347436382 1263421
> > 121279    |    8347436382 9853356
> > 121280    |    8347436383 114184622
> > 121290    |    8347436383 1489743406 4670264
> > ---       |    8347436383 1489743406 467026400   (Mathematica output)
> [snipped]

I verified that NAG 2.3 version gives correct result for 121278-121280 (RedHat
9.0, i386 Pentium II (MMX) simulated on a Mac OS 10.2.8 using Virtual PC 6.01).

121278       8347436383 1489743
121279       8347436383 14897434
121280       8347436383 148974341

William

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