Re: Weird division
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg22745] Re: [mg22686] Weird division
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 03:27:38 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
PaulDj, This is because the default display precision for machine precision numbers is 6 places. You can change this is the Option Inspector, or you can use NumberForm to displace the desired number of places. When i <= 16 you obtain a machine precision number. When i > 16 you no longer have a machine precision number and Mathematica now displays its set precision. Remember that N is used to convert exact numbers to approximate numbers. It is not an output formatting tool. David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ >Hallo, >do you know why > >N[2^25/38,i]=883011. when i<=16 > >and only with i>16 the decimal digits come out? > >Thanks >-- >PaulDj > >pauldj at ticam.utexas.edu bientin at matcomp1.imc.pi.cnr.it >------------------------------------------------------------ > >