Re: floor(121^(1/2))=10(??)

[William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>]

Zak Seidov <zakseidov@yahoo.com> writes:

> OK, I understand, that sometimes floor is wrong.
> But plz  help to write a code for computing perfect power number
> . . .


Perhaps you want something like:

  myfloor(x)={local(t);t=sqrt(x);floor(t+1/(10^(2+precision(t))))}

(There's probably a more efficient way to enter the small correction.)


                                    -- Bill