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Precision of output

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• Subject: [mg48193] Precision of output
• From: spam at husumtoften.invalid (Per Rønne)
• Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 03:22:05 -0400 (EDT)
• Reply-to: spam at husumtoften.dk (Per Rønne)
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If I write:

N[4209/0.14,100] I get:
30064.3

But if I write N[420900/14,100] I get:
30064.285714285714285714285714285714285714285714285714285714285714285714
285714\
28571428571428571428571

Why the difference? I thought N determined the number of digitals shown
- but I seem to have some problems with this function. And it is not in
this example only.

TeachersEdition 1.1 with Mathematica 4.2 kernel.
-- 
Per Erik Rønne

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