>> Somebody just showed me "Google
calculator". Go to google and enter any of
>Their "complete instructions" suck. They don't even list all of the
>operators! (such as your use above of "in octal".
>OK,
>what is the IEEE floating point representation of PI?
>"3.1.459 in binary" does NOT work.
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Joe wrote:
I don't know but 355/113 is easy to remember
and is accuarate to about 6
places. That's what we used to use on computer languages that didn't have
PI predefined. (Boy I'm dating myself!)
the Google calculator will not show the binary of that, either.
Presumably it does NOT support any floating point in anything but decimal.