Re: loooong number

[Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 08:19:21AM -0700, Ray Andrews wrote:
> Now, the formula for the number is easy but the output
> of course is going to be a floating point number of 200 and counting digits
> which of course zsh can't handle.  But it occurred to me that if the digits
> could be computed one at a time (as we can do for pi), then the output could
> be treated as a simple string to which digits are added indefinitely.  I
> guess this is really a mathematical question, strictly speaking, but
> somebody might know.

"bc" can do calculations in arbitrary precision:

-- snip --
$ bc -l
bc 1.07.1
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This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
scale=5
e(1)
2.71828
scale=200
e(1)
2.718281828459045235360287471352662497757247093699959574966967627724\
07663035354759457138217852516642742746639193200305992181741359662904\
357290033429526059563073813232862794349076323382988075319525101901
-- snip --

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt