Re: SetPrecision[]
- To: mathgroup at yoda.ncsa.uiuc.edu
- Subject: Re: SetPrecision[]
- From: uunet!renoir.Berkeley.EDU!fateman (Richard Fateman)
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 90 07:59:17 -0700
Actually, SetPrecision[1.2,30] --> 1.2000000 <30 digits> IS possible, and here's how. Treat 1.2 as an input form, like RealNumber[1,2]. Don't convert it to machine precision until you do arithmetic on it. This is a total hack, and only serves to maintain the mistaken illusion that Mathematica does decimal arithmetic, and perpetuates the myth that there is something inherently correct about decimal input or output .... but, for example, I could easily put the hack above into my own Mathematica-like parser written in Common Lisp. -- Richard Fateman