Quote:
Originally Posted by feisty2
just out of curiosity, computer was initially designed and made to do scientific calculations decades ago, something more like what we call "calculator" nowadays
how come stuff like fractions, pi, e.. were never supported at the hardware level thru all these years, they are just typical and super common stuff used like, everyday
|
Because they use letters instead of numbers.
Before you simplify everything as much as possible then calculate the result.
In any case exist quadruple-precision floating-point format (128-bits) for those who need a lot of precision.