pi and floating numbers

Hi, :)
is there a way to use floating numbers or high precision numbers in run basic?
It seems that numbers are truncated to 8 decimals.
for example I entered a pi value:

pi=3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303820
print str$(pi) -->outputs 3.14159265

print len(str$(pi)) -->outputs 10 ("3." plus 8 decimals)
print using("###.#######################################################################################################################################################################################################",pi)
here the output is any another other number:

thanks a lot

Alberto

Run BASIC is not a high level math language and depends on the capabilities of the math co-processor of the computer, which has only limited precession.

If you need high precession, use integers for your calculations and format them for the display.

You've got 15 digits of precision there which about what you can expect from double precision math with Run BASIC. The rest of the digits are from the rendering algorithm trying to estimate the rest of the value, something it doesn't do very well obviously.

Run BASIC does allow for arbitrarily large integers, but not so for floating point numbers.

-Carl

Thanks, ;D
Using it like integer works fine.
ci=3141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086512823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303820
print using("########################################################################################################### ###############################################################################################",ci)
result->




Stefan: please use code and quote boxes for very long lines, so they include a horizontal scrollbar or wrap the text nicely

Great, but you don't need the using() function for that. ;)

-Carl