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| Aug 5, 2023 at 3:14 | comment | added | Michael E2 | @ivbc And then there's Floor[(1/45.`30)*45] - 1 -- every example contrived to illustrate a limitation as a fix, but that does not mean the fix does not have a similar limitation. However, I agree that a reference to full range of numbers would be helpful, such as the tech note Numbers. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:56 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/ with https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Jun 17, 2016 at 16:36 | comment | added | ivbc | Not sure how, but it I guess it would be nice to add that you can add floating-point numbers with greater precision in order to improve results. Something like "45.3`30" might improve upon the result described here... | |
| May 14, 2015 at 12:20 | history | edited | Michael E2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Added para. re the use of exact/approx. numbers in solvers. |
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| S Jan 26, 2013 at 2:21 | history | answered | Verbeia | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
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