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  2. Significant figures - Wikipedia

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    As a result, 4 does not impact the number of significant figures or digits in the result of calculations with it. A mathematical or physical constant has significant figures to its known digits. π is a specific real number with several equivalent definitions. All of the digits in its exact decimal expansion 3.14159265358979323... are significant.

  3. Chronology of computation of π - Wikipedia

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    Computation of binary digits: 80 days; Conversion to base 10: 8.2 days; Verification of the conversion: 45.6 hours; Verification of the binary digits: 64 hours (Bellard formula), 66 hours (BBP formula) Verification of the binary digits were done simultaneously on two separate computers during the main computation.

  4. Calculator spelling - Wikipedia

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    Calculator spelling is an unintended characteristic of the seven-segment display traditionally used by calculators, in which, when read upside-down, the digits resemble letters of the Latin alphabet. Each digit may be mapped to one or more letters, creating a limited but functional subset of the alphabet, sometimes referred to as beghilos (or ...

  5. Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Excel maintains 15 figures in its numbers, but they are not always accurate; mathematically, the bottom line should be the same as the top line, in 'fp-math' the step '1 + 1/9000' leads to a rounding up as the first bit of the 14 bit tail '10111000110010' of the mantissa falling off the table when adding 1 is a '1', this up-rounding is not undone when subtracting the 1 again, since there is no ...

  6. Largest known prime number - Wikipedia

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    The largest known prime number is 2 136,279,841 − 1, a number which has 41,024,320 digits when written in the decimal system. It was found on October 12, 2024, on a cloud-based virtual machine volunteered by Luke Durant, a 36-year-old researcher from San Jose, California, to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS).

  7. Single-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia

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    All integers with seven or fewer decimal digits, and any 2 n for a whole number −149 ≤ n ≤ 127, can be converted exactly into an IEEE 754 single-precision floating-point value. In the IEEE 754 standard , the 32-bit base-2 format is officially referred to as binary32 ; it was called single in IEEE 754-1985 .

  8. Numeric keypad - Wikipedia

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    For use with a shorter keyboard or laptop which omits the numberpad Bluetooth numeric keypad, working also as calculator. A numeric keypad, number pad, numpad, or ten key, [1] [2] [3] is the palm-sized, usually-17-key section of a standard computer keyboard, usually on the far right. It provides calculator-style efficiency for entering numbers.

  9. Computer number format - Wikipedia

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    The representation has a limited precision. For example, only 15 decimal digits can be represented with a 64-bit real. If a very small floating-point number is added to a large one, the result is just the large one. The small number was too small to even show up in 15 or 16 digits of resolution, and the computer effectively discards it.