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Re: Another newbie question


From: Mike Miller
Subject: Re: Another newbie question
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:45:29 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Ian Garcia wrote:

> --- WJ Atsma <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Not to say that something useful couldn't be done. It should be
> > possible to pass numbers with a precision qualifier and propagate it
> > through your equations, but nobody has done this and I don't know of
> > any other numerical packages/spreadsheets that do.
>
>  I thought this is possible in Mathematica, isn't it ?


Mathematica does arbitrary precision arithmetic.  *Any* number of digits
(limited only by the speed of your CPU and memory requirements).

Mike



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