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> These calculations involve some elementary but easy to mess up algebra and some very demanding numerical calculations for which regular IEEE double precision is insufficient. If you'd like to double-check these results, be sure to use a multiple precision calculator with at least 30 significant digits of accuracy.

So you're saying my iPhone built-in calculator app is going to have problems....?

Time to whip out dc on the terminal.



> So you're saying my iPhone built-in calculator app is going to have problems....?

Your Android phone's built-in calculator app, however, will not. :^)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3385412.3386037



Or ChatGPT to output Julia code


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> Which defaults to float64, which is IEEE precision, exactly what the article warns about…… I mean, seriously?

It has native support for arbitrary precision operations. RTFM.




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