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  2. Arbitrary-precision arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    Arbitrary precision is used in applications where the speed of arithmetic is not a limiting factor, or where precise results with very large numbers are required. It should not be confused with the symbolic computation provided by many computer algebra systems , which represent numbers by expressions such as π ·sin(2) , and can thus represent ...

  3. Brace notation - Wikipedia

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    In C, strings are normally represented as a character array rather than an actual string data type. The fact a string is really an array of characters means that referring to a string would mean referring to the first element in an array. Hence in C, the following is a legitimate example of brace notation:

  4. Stirling's approximation - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] One way of stating the approximation involves the logarithm of the factorial: ⁡ (!) = ⁡ + (⁡), where the big O notation means that, for all sufficiently large values of , the difference between ⁡ (!

  5. Python syntax and semantics - Wikipedia

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    Numeric literals in Python are of the normal sort, e.g. 0, -1, 3.4, 3.5e-8. Python has arbitrary-length integers and automatically increases their storage size as necessary. Prior to Python 3, there were two kinds of integral numbers: traditional fixed size integers and "long" integers of arbitrary size.

  6. Knuth's up-arrow notation - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, Knuth's up-arrow notation is a method of notation for very large integers, introduced by Donald Knuth in 1976. [1]In his 1947 paper, [2] R. L. Goodstein introduced the specific sequence of operations that are now called hyperoperations.

  7. Scientific notation - Wikipedia

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    To represent the number 1,230,400 in normalized scientific notation, the decimal separator would be moved 6 digits to the left and × 10 6 appended, resulting in 1.2304 × 10 6. The number −0.004 0321 would have its decimal separator shifted 3 digits to the right instead of the left and yield −4.0321 × 10 −3 as a result.

  8. Python (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Since 7 October 2024, Python 3.13 is the latest stable release, and it and, for few more months, 3.12 are the only releases with active support including for bug fixes (as opposed to just for security) and Python 3.9, [55] is the oldest supported version of Python (albeit in the 'security support' phase), due to Python 3.8 reaching end-of-life.

  9. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    A very large number raised to a very large power is "approximately" equal to the larger of the following two values: the first value and 10 to the power the second. For example, for very large n {\displaystyle n} there is n n ≈ 10 n {\displaystyle n^{n}\approx 10^{n}} (see e.g. the computation of mega ) and also 2 n ≈ 10 n {\displaystyle 2 ...