in reply to Re^5: Why am I losing accuracy?
in thread Why am I losing accuracy?

> BTW in Linux the command bc does arbitrary precision arithmetic and can be used to verify these numbers.

That was what I used. :) Further, the whole point of the script I was writing that led to this question was the desire to automate a process where I used bc, and then processed the output further. The (now-completed) perl script does everything in one step.

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Re^7: Why am I losing accuracy?
by bliako (Abbot) on Jan 13, 2020 at 11:15 UTC

    great you cracked it and are now able to sit back while the computer does all the work for you! There is Really *NOT* Another Way about that (sitting back and looking at the sweating computer I mean)

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