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09/12/2002 09:33:02
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Windows
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Computing in general
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00730634
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>>... has now supposedly been calculated to over a trillion places.
>>
>>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/98912_pi07.shtml
>
>Let's see if I can type that many digits into the Windows Calculator... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>
>nope............ defective calculator!!!
>
>Tommy

VFP is limited to ca 15 significant digits. I uploaded a download called "math unlimited" (VFP class) that can do the basic operations and a lot more - but since it uses VFP arrays, it is limited to ca. 65000 digits.

Hilmar.
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