• blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      You get that level of precision in a standard “double” floating point number. So that’s basically the normal level of precision you get without trying.

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      11 months ago

      Google suggests that excel uses 15. So even college students working on any old STEM degree are probably using 15 digits.