Timeline for Does SetPrecision[x, Infinity] expose the internal exact number in the approximated number?
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| Jun 8, 2020 at 6:50 | comment | added | Murphy Ng |
I used the NumericalMath$NumberBits[num]` which return the same number as SetPrecision[SetPrecision[x, Precision[x] + 32], Infinity]. But after some experiment, I found things are more complicated than I thought. Could you checkout my updated question, please?
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| Jun 8, 2020 at 0:06 | comment | added | Michael E2 | @MurphyNg It was a typo. I don't know of any documentation. I figured things out by experimentation. There might be something in the Wolfram Library at wolfram.com | |
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| Jun 7, 2020 at 23:54 | comment | added | Murphy Ng | These aren't documented anywhere, right? I find it so hard to figure out the whole mechanism of number precision. | |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 18:12 | history | edited | Michael E2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2020 at 17:54 | history | edited | Michael E2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2020 at 17:49 | history | answered | Michael E2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |