Re: Can somebody help to explain why result from atan does not equal a r

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From:	Noah Lavine
Subject:	Re: Can somebody help to explain why result from atan does not equal a real?
Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:52:44 -0500

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:50 AM, John Darrington <address@hidden> wrote:

pi is an irrational number. You would need an infinite number of digits wouldn't you?

Good point :-). All I meant was enough digits that it parsed as the same floating-point number that (atan 0 -1) returns.

Noah Lavine

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