Precision in bits

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Precision in bits

user257
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how do you convert precision in bits to number of decimal digits ? I couldn't find out the formula. googling didn't help either. What I'm asking is;

print(N(pi, prec=2)) gives 3.0

print(N(pi, prec=4)) gives 3.2

print(N(pi, prec=6)) gives 3.1

print(N(pi, prec=12)) gives 3.14

etc.

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You can look at the documentation of N with:

sage: N?

You can see that, besides the prec option, there is a digit option that does the job:

sage: print(N(pi, digits=4))
3.142
sage: print(N(pi, digits=6))
3.14159
sage: print(N(pi, digits=12))
3.14159265359

Thanks, I know "digits", but I was interested whether there's a formula between these 2.

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