RE: [Axiom-developer] axiom--main--1--patch-31

[Bill Page]

On Friday, March 18, 2005 6:33 PM Bob McElrath wrote:
> 
> I have a feeling Axiom will go through at least 42 more 
> releases in its lifetime.  (at least, I hope)  Somehow,
> I think people might not notice that version
> 2.71828182845904523536028747135266249775724
> is not the same as
> 2.718281828459045235360287471352662497757247.  ;)

I think Knuth only used this for **major** versions.
TeX is older and it is currently at version 3.141592

> 
> Ok how do I do that in axiom?
> 
> \begin{axiom}
> address@hidden
> \begin{axiom}
> 
> gives me the value, but how do I change the number of digits 
> displayed? My guess: address@hidden(42) is wrong...

\begin{axiom}
digits(2)
address@hidden
digits(3)
address@hidden
digits(4)
address@hidden
digits(5)
address@hidden
\begin{axiom}

Regards,
Bill Page.

> 
> Bill Page address@hidden wrote:
> > Tim,
> > 
> > You know how Knuth choose approximations to the number
> > \pi for version of TeX? Maybe for Axiom we should do the
> > same with %e? ;) Like so
> > 
> >   version 2.7
> >   version 2.72
> >   version 2.718
> >