Hi all,
I need more decimal places to express an irrational number. For instance I am doing the equation 1000 / 30 and receiving 33.3333. I need it to at least give me the millionths place. Is there a way I can extend the number of decimal places to represent this irrational number??

this seems like a good explanation of the issue http://flo.mur.at/blog/large-and-long-numbers-in-pd
this too http://www.katjaas.nl/doubleprecision/doubleprecision.html
and this http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2008-08/012177.html
the editor in pd only displays numbers up to 6 decimal points in order to hide things from the user apparently.
oh, and check float-precision-misrepresentation.pd in the Message oddness manual
also see the float24 object for a way to save the number of a float correctly