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FunWithNumbers (version 1.2)

preciseNumbersAsChar: High-precision values for some common constants, in character strings.

Description

These are provided for use when playing around with some of the functions in this package, e.g., bestFrac or cfrac

Arguments

Author

Carl Witthoft, carl@witthoft.com

Details

These represent, in order, "e" (natural log base), the golden ratio (1+sqrt(5))/2 aka "phi", "pi", and the square root of 2 as generated via rmpfr with 10 000 binary bits of precision. There are many websites which can provide upwards of a million decimal digits for these constants for those who are interested.