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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 ?
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 ?
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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
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8.778357852076208839765066529179e-3700 means nothing to someone that doesn't know what e-3700 means.
A few pages full of zeros would show how small it is even to the mathematically challenged. I'm looking for other ideas though.
A few pages full of zeros would show how small it is even to the mathematically challenged. I'm looking for other ideas though.
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if you ask google what 0.5^12288 is, it just returns 0 which is probably close enough 
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Tried the same calculation in JavaScript and VBScript and they both return 0 as well.
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yes well -e3700 is so small it is considered to be 0, you would be hard pressed to find anything that would not round it to 0