Fortran (Was: The "does Python have variables?" debate)

[Dave Angel]

On 05/11/2014 02:54 PM, Mark H Harris wrote:

>
>  >julia> sin(BigFloat(π/4))
>  > 7.0710678118654750275194295621751674626154323953749278952436611913748
>  > 20215180412e-01 with 256 bits of precision
>

That answer doesn't seem to come anywhere near 256 bits of precision.

Using Python 3.2,

 >>> x=70710678118654750275194295621751674626154323953749278952436611913748
 >>> x*x
4999999999999999693838300213161705693483516931249926767981110058185818806614907837502621065882204197129973479350206261627418690991407504

Not that this is surprising, but it does make a terrible ad for how 
great Julia is.

-- 
DaveA