"unChopping" oddity explained--Thanks
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- Subject: [mg796] "unChopping" oddity explained--Thanks
- From: Preston Nichols <pdn at godel.math.cmu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:47:34 -0400
I thank David Withoff for his answer to my about the "mysterious"
extra digits. (My initial puzzlement arose from a failure to
realize that Graphics3D was not the culprit, but rather the
difference between InputForm and OutputForm. I thank E. Lange for
pointing my attention in the correct direction.)
The phenomenon of "accumulated representation error" can be
displayed in Mathematica very simply, as follows:
In[11]:= Table[t, {t,0,5,0.2}]
Out[11]= {0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1., 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 2., 2.2,
2.4, 2.6,
> 2.8, 3., 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 4., 4.2, 4.4, 4.6, 4.8, 5.}
In[12]:= %//InputForm
Out[12]//InputForm=
{0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6000000000000001, 0.8, 1., 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8,
2., 2.2,
2.4, 2.6, 2.8, 3., 3.200000000000001, 3.400000000000001,
3.600000000000001, 3.800000000000001, 4.000000000000001,
4.200000000000001, 4.400000000000002, 4.600000000000002,
4.800000000000002, 5.000000000000002}
Preston Nichols
Department of Mathematics
Carnegie Mellon University