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digit - digit at specified position in a "decimal" representation
SYNOPSIS
digit(x, n [, b])
TYPES
x real
n integer
b integer >= 2, default = 10
return integer
DESCRIPTION
d(x,n,b) returns the digit with index n in a standard base-b "decimal"
representation of x, which may be described as follows:
For an arbitrary base b >= 2, following the pattern of decimal (base 10)
notation in elementary arithmetic, a base-b "decimal" representation of
a positive real number may be considered to be specified by a finite or
infinite sequence of "digits" with possibly a "decimal" point
to indicate where the fractional part of the representation begins.
Just as the digits for base 10 are the integers 0, 1, 2, ..., 9, the
digits for a base-b representation are the integers d for which
0 <= d < b. The index for a digit position is the count, positively to
the left, of the number from the "units" position immediately to the
left of the "decimal" point; the digit d_n at position n contributes
additively d_n * b^n to the value of x. For example,
; d_2 d_1 d_0 . d_-1 d_-2
represents the number
; d_2 * b^2 + d_1 * b + d0 + d_-1 * b^-1 + d_-2 * b^-2
The sequence of digits has to be infinite if den(x) has a prime factor
which is not a factor of the base b. In cases where the representation
may terminate, the digits are considered to continue with an infinite
string of zeros rather than the other possibility of an infinite
sequence of (b - 1)s. Thus, for the above example, d_n = 0 for
n = -3, -4, ... Similarly, a representation may be considered to
continue with an infinite string of zeros on the left, so that in the
above example d_n = 0 also for n >= 3.
For negative x, digit(x,n,b) is given by digit(abs(x),n,b); the
standard "decimal" representation of this x is a - sign followed by
the representation of abs(x).
In calc, the "real" numbers are all rational and for these the
digits following the decimal point eventually form a recurring sequence.
With base-b digits for x as explained above, the integer whose base-b
representation is
; b_n+k-1 b_n_k-2 ... b_n,
i.e. the k digits with last digit b_n, is given by
; digit(b^-r * x, q, b^k)
if r and q satisfy n = q * b + r.
EXAMPLE
; a = 123456.789
; for (n = 6; n >= -6; n++) print digit(a, n),; print
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 0 0
; for (n = 6; n >= -6; n--) print digit(a, n, 100),; print
0 0 0 0 12 34 56 78 90 0 0 0 0
; for (n = 6; n >= -6; n--) print digit(a, n, 256),; print
0 0 0 0 1 226 64 201 251 231 108 139 67
; for (n = 1; n >= -12; n++) print digit(10/7, n),; print
; 0 1 4 2 8 5 7 1 4 2 8 5 7 1
; print digit(10/7, -7e1000, 1e6)
428571
LIMITS
The absolute value of the integral part of x is assumed to be less
than 2^2^31, ensuring that digit(x, n, b) will be zero if n >= 2^31.
The size of negative n is limited only by the capacity of the computer
being used.
LINK LIBRARY
NUMBER * qdigit(NUMBER *q, ZVALUE dpos, ZVALUE base)
SEE ALSO
bit
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