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Help me get Function N running to get large gammas in the Twin Paradox?

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POSTED BY: Douglas Youvan
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Marco,

Thanks. 0."24 nines" of c turns a billion years into about 12 hours!

10^9 / dilation 365 24

Doug

POSTED BY: Douglas Youvan

Hi,

this should work:

dilation = N[1/((1 - (SetPrecision[0.999999999999999999999999^2, Infinity]))^(1/2)), 1000]

It was just a little numerical problem. The term

((1.000000000000000000000000 - (0.999999999999999999999999^2))^(1/ 2))

is numerically zero:

0.*10^-12

Cheers,

Marco

POSTED BY: Marco Thiel
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