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   Mostowski Collapse to Richard Fateman   
   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   
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