“Consider this straightforward calculation: (10100) + 1 - (10100)
The answer, of course, is 1. But if you were to input it right now on your iPhone calculator, the answer you would get is 0.”
Umm… I just input it into my iPhone calculator (both scientific with the parentheses, and in the basic calculator, without parentheses) and got the correct answer of 1.
10100 should have been 10^100 and similarly other places. 10^100 is a googol.
Probably substack butchered the exponential
Similarly, 264 should have been 2^64
“Consider this straightforward calculation: (10100) + 1 - (10100)
The answer, of course, is 1. But if you were to input it right now on your iPhone calculator, the answer you would get is 0.”
Umm… I just input it into my iPhone calculator (both scientific with the parentheses, and in the basic calculator, without parentheses) and got the correct answer of 1.
Same
our bad, lost the formatting when we ported it over. corrected! try it with 10^100!