09-23-2022, 10:13 PM
The path doesn't bother me. It's the damn rabbit holes along the path that bothers me.
Here's a beauty...
For calculators it is easy enough to do fraction division, and express the result as a decimal. I just keep the fraction for the next calculation. Now with roots, I don't see a way to do that. Roots often result in very long or non-terminating decimals. The long division binomial expansion method I just put together does not appear to have any divisor to place a remainder over. So if that's so, and I want to use roots in my string math calculator, this would totally blow apart the accuracy of using fractions in division when a root extraction cannot be expressed as a fraction and blows all that work straight down the rabbit hole.
Pete
Here's a beauty...
For calculators it is easy enough to do fraction division, and express the result as a decimal. I just keep the fraction for the next calculation. Now with roots, I don't see a way to do that. Roots often result in very long or non-terminating decimals. The long division binomial expansion method I just put together does not appear to have any divisor to place a remainder over. So if that's so, and I want to use roots in my string math calculator, this would totally blow apart the accuracy of using fractions in division when a root extraction cannot be expressed as a fraction and blows all that work straight down the rabbit hole.
Pete
Shoot first and shoot people who ask questions, later.
