Re: Errors with decimal addition in Mathematica 5.0
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- Subject: [mg47423] Re: Errors with decimal addition in Mathematica 5.0
- From: bobhanlon at aol.com (Bob Hanlon)
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 04:44:02 -0400 (EDT)
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The last digit is correct to the display precision. What you are asking for is how to display an additional digit. InputForm[13505.5-244.91] 13260.59 NumberForm[13505.5-244.91,7] 13260.59 13505.5`7-244.91`7 13260.59 Bob Hanlon In article <c582pm$npb$1 at smc.vnet.net>, yupeng_ at hotmail.com (Peng Yu) wrote: << In[1]:= 13505.5 - 244.91 Out[1]= 13260.6 However,13505.5 - 244.91 = 13260.59. "N" doesn't help, either. In[25]:= N[13505.50 - 244.91] Out[25]= 13260.6 But the following command gives the correct answer. In[26]:= 505.50 - 244.91 Out[26]= 260.59