RE: Strange result with exponents...

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joe Pluta

| At the same
| time, should everyone who uses exponentiation know floating point?  I
| don't think that's reasonable.

Imo, not only unreasonable, but unnecessary.  Especially if rumors about >31
digit accuracy coming in 530 (V5R3M0) come to pass.

| -----Original Message-----
| From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
| [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Simon Coulter

| Anyone who uses floating point should know that it is an approximation
| and is only accurate to nearly 16 digits. I understand 16 digits of
| precision exceeds the experimental accuracy of all known constants of
| nature but that doesn't help in the business world.

Am I understanding correctly that the 400 doesn't even Need floating point
to solve all known Scientific math problems??  (Of course, Not suggesting
it's unnecessary, because of "requirements" of backwards compatibility.)