Re: Problem about expression
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- Subject: [mg41137] Re: [mg41119] Problem about expression
- From: Selwyn Hollis <selwynh at earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 02:42:07 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I can't imagine how it got there, but the decimal point and the 2 are separated by what amounts to a space, much like what you get when you type 2x. Is this something that occurs repeatedly? If not, fix it and forget about it. ----- Selwyn Hollis http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis On Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 03:54 AM, Bamboo wrote: > > Dear all, > > > I assign "0.2" to tmax. But the assigned value is "0." actually. > As shown in the complete expression, "0.2" is divided into "0." and > "2". > > If the first blank line is deleted, the assigned value is "0.2" which > is > correct. > It seems that Mathematica did something automatically. > How to get rid of this trouble? > > > In[1]:= > tmax=0.2; > tmax > Quit[] > > Out[2]:= > 0. > > > The complete expression is as following: > > > Cell[BoxData[{ > RowBox[{"\[IndentingNewLine]", > StyleBox[ > RowBox[{ > RowBox[{"tmax", "=", > RowBox[{"0.", "2"}]}], ";"}], > Background->None]}], "\[IndentingNewLine]", "tmax", > "\[IndentingNewLine]", > RowBox[{"Quit", "[", "]"}]}], "Input", > CellLabel->"In[1]:=", > CellFrame->{{0, 0}, {0.5, 0}}] > > > Any help welcome. > > Thanks, > Bamboo > > >