Re^6: IF condition with a range (updated)

Well, the difference between 1e-5000 and 1e-5100 is pretty small. For most intents and purposes, there is no difference.

The difference between 6**6**6 and 7**7**7 is a lot bigger. By my calculations, the latter is 659669 orders of magnitude bigger than the former. (That is, to approximate 7**7**7, you'd need to add 659669 zeroes to the end of 6**6**6.)

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Re^7: IF condition with a range (updated) by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jul 17, 2018 at 13:25 UTC
Well, the difference between 1e-5000 and 1e-5100 is pretty small. For most intents and purposes, there is no difference Heh ... I thought this was about "mathematical equality", but suddenly it's now also about "intents and purposes". For double precision NVs I could have chosen much larger values of (say) 1e-324 and 1e-325 ... but you're probably not going to be swayed by that, anyway ;-) By my calculations, the latter is 659669 orders of magnitude bigger than the former Yep, I get the same: `C:\>perl -MMath::MPFR -le "$x=Math::MPFR->new(6 6); print 6 $x; 2.6591197721532269e36305 C:\>perl -MMath::MPFR -le "$x=Math::MPFR->new(7 7); print 7 $x; 3.7598235267837884e695974` [download] Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^7: IF condition with a range (updated)
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jul 17, 2018 at 13:25 UTC

Well, the difference between 1e-5000 and 1e-5100 is pretty small. For most intents and purposes, there is no difference

By my calculations, the latter is 659669 orders of magnitude bigger than the former

C:\>perl -MMath::MPFR -le "$x=Math::MPFR->new(6 ** 6); print 6 ** $x;
2.6591197721532269e36305

C:\>perl -MMath::MPFR -le "$x=Math::MPFR->new(7 ** 7); print 7 ** $x;
3.7598235267837884e695974
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