Timeline for How to calculate [10^10^10^10^10^-10^10]?
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| Dec 2, 2011 at 19:18 | vote | accept | Vladimir Reshetnikov | ||
| Oct 28, 2011 at 3:55 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | As far as I can tell, hypercalc just uses standard floating point representations of iterated logs. This suggests that it cannot handle the sort of precision necessary here. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 17:41 | comment | added | Gottfried Helms | Robert Munafo has a "hypercalc", unfortunately not for the windows-environment, so I cannot use it (Actually it is a perl-script). mrob.com/pub/perl/index.html cite: "Hypercalc: An unusual calculator program. It represents numbers in a special way allowing the calculation of quantities much larger than tools such as bc, dc, MACSYMA/maxima, Mathematica and Maple, all of which use a bignum library. For example, you can use Hypercalc to determine whether 128^48^1024 is larger than 8^88^888. (...)" (from R. Munafo's site). Someone who could try it with this program? | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 14:39 | comment | added | GH from MO | @Gerry: I thought the same! :-) | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 4:45 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | I'm not convinced the question belongs on MO, but I like the answer too much to vote the question down. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 1:09 | history | edited | GH from MO | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 27, 2011 at 1:03 | history | answered | GH from MO | CC BY-SA 3.0 |