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Subject: Re: exercise in double number arithmetic
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2024 18:15:14 +0000
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On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 16:13:33 (UTC), Ahmed wrote:
> minforth version gives: 68 34 bcoef  28453041475240574976  ok (it is
> different)

No surprise here. Float64 can't represent more than about 16 decimal
significand digits (mantissa has 52 bits)