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cube root is sometimes inaccurate #142

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dan-simon opened this issue Sep 29, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by #143

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dan-simon commented Sep 29, 2022

When trying to implement the cubic formula, I came across this problem:

c = new Decimal(2.5e-8)
Decimal {mantissa: 2.5, exponent: -8}
c.cbrt().pow(3)
Decimal {mantissa: 2.4999999999999996, exponent: -7}

(The cube root is inaccurate, not the .pow(3))

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Patashu closed this as completed in #143

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