From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Sep 12 09:03:18 1995
Subject: How many digits does octave use?!
From: Eyal Doron <doron at goofy dot mpi-hd dot mpg dot de>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu (Octave mailing list)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 13:19:56 +0100 (MET DST)

Hi,

  How do you explain this:

octave:48> a=rand(1,1)/200;
octave:49> sprintf("%.100g\n",a)
ans = 0.0004910822212696075612925472597680709441192448139190673828125

Thats 64 DIGITS! Where are they coming from?

Eyal Doron