[Jprogramming] difficulty with extended precision arithmetic

[bill lam]

mar, 19 Jan 2010, R.E. Boss skribis:
>    T=:10000000000000306999999999997669x
> 
>    9!:11 ]20	NB. print precision
> 
>    T^0.5
> 3162277660168428
> 

Isn't the result of T^0.5 a ieee floating point?  In that case, increase its
print precision above 16 does not increase accuracy.

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