Re: floor(PI)

[Fernando Gouvea <fqgouvea@colby.edu>]

(14:33) gp > PI
%2 = PI
(14:33) gp > Pi
%3 = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028842

On 1/9/2023 2:23 PM, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:

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>       Is this on purpose?
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>       ? floor(PI)
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>       % = PI
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>       (I expected 3)
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>       -- Ruud
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