Windows scientific calculator calculates .5 ^ 12288 as 8.778357852076208839765066529179e-3700
Anyone know of a calculator that will output the result in ordinary format i.e. 0.0000000000000000000000000<snipped zeros>8778357852076208839765066529179
Any other ideas how I could express exactly how small this number is ?
um the reason it expresses it as e-3700 is precicely because it is so small, I'm pretty sure you will never find a calculator that is going to output 3700 digits
Tried the same calculation in JavaScript and VBScript and they both return 0 as well.
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Very small number problem
Posted - 12 March 2009 : 07:03:39
