Re: calc: C-style arbitrary precision calculator

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From: David Cantrell
Subject: Re: calc: C-style arbitrary precision calculator
Date: 16:49 on 30 Nov 2005
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:20:04PM +0100, Juerd wrote:
> David Cantrell skribis 2005-11-30 14:05 (+0000):
> > ; iroot(90872395726983750274650285408174305827346085726340587260384650287435,3)
> >         44958380568752795591117
> > ; 44958380568752795591117^3
> >         90872395726983750274646170108413760218858681308600137573915168198613
> I guess your definitions of "abritrary" are unaligned.

The documentation tells me that if it truncates for display purposes, it
will tell me by preceding the result with ~.  Which it didn't do.

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