approximating big numbers to infinity #2316
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What we are going to do for now is: we don't display the exact result if user does not go up in the result. So you would only see the infinite sign, by default. And if you go up, you'd see this approximated sign.
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I've just asked my A Level class and they all don't like this solution.
It's the appearance of infinity which is troubling, as any finite answer isn't approximately or even nearly infinity.
Possible solutions, display as >10^303 (or whatever your upper limit is), or display as 'overflow error', 'too large to calculate'.
Thank you.
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Problem you'd like to fix
When I enter a power tower of 3^3^3^3 it gives the approx answer as approx = infinity.
Please describe a single improvement per issue. Feel free to open multiple issues though!
It shouldn't approximate big numbers to infinity - that is a misconception which I don't want to see! If the number is bigger than can be represented in decimal notation it should drop the approx = sign.
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