<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 17:32, Christopher Howard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christopher.howard@frigidcode.com">christopher.howard@frigidcode.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Or maybe an all-rational math? I'm mainly curious as my CASIO fx-115W calculator returns a result of exactly 4 if I input 8^(2/3), but I do not know how it arrives at the answer.</div></blockquote><div>
<br></div><div>Calculators often resort to built-in tables.</div><div><br></div><div>The easiest solution is probably to round off the last 2 digits of the full precision. </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>brandon s allbery <a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a><br>
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