RE: Letting integers be integers (when using //N)
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- Subject: [mg27666] RE: [mg27628] Letting integers be integers (when using //N)
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 00:49:58 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Here is one method.
f[x_] := If[IntegerQ[x], x, N[x]]
a = 1; b = 0.5; c = 1/3;
Print[{{"a", "b", "c"}, f /@ {a, b, c}} // TableForm]
David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
> From: A. E. Siegman [mailto:siegman at stanford.edu]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>
> A convenient way to format and print the numerical values of a bunch of
> variables a,b,c, . . . neatly aligned directly under their corresponding
> names is
>
> Print[ { {"a", "b", "c", . . . .},
> {a, b, c, . . . . . } //N } //TableForm]
>
> The //N is needed for most of the variables in the list, because most of
> them will otherwise appear as messy expressions with lots of pi's and
> Sqrt[2]'s and such.
>
> The thing is, the variable a has an inherently integer value, and just
> being fussy I'd like it to print as an integer. But if I write the
> second list as
>
> {Round[a], b, c, . . . .}//N
>
> the a value still comes out with a decimal point. Any simple way to
> get rid of the decimal point on that one value, other than putting //N
> on each item of the list individually except for a ?
>