Why BigFloat(10^(1/4) is wrong? julia> BigFloat(10^(1/4)) 1.778279410038922758729995621251873672008514404296875 exact: 1.77827941003892280122542119519… Thanks

Try: julia> 10^(1/BigFloat(4)) 1.778279410038922801225421195192684844735790526402255358011830722776301881539489 You must make sure that already the first operation, the division is done with high accuracy.

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mefi August 26, 2019, 7:07am 4

Oh, Thanks. What you mean with “convert”?

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