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|    Re: square roots algo    |
|    20 Jan 21 08:22:45    |
      From: janburse@fastmail.fm              What was the rounding mode?       Round towards bullshit?              Richard Fateman schrieb:       > I have repeatedly posted one-line programs in Mathematica that lose       > a decimal digit about every 3 times through a loop. The computation,       repeated, is       > x= 2*x-x              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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