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   Mostowski Collapse to Nasser M. Abbasi   
   Re: square roots algo   
   20 Jan 21 21:24:48   
   
   From: janburse@fastmail.fm   
      
   Did somebody already file a bug?   
   The result doesn't make any sense,   
   neither with radix=10 nor with radix=2.   
      
   Nasser M. Abbasi schrieb:   
   > x = 1.00000000000000000000;   
   > Do[x = 2*x - x, 120];   
   > Print[x]   
   >   
   >             0.*10^37   
      
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