Re: Precision of output
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg48202] Re: Precision of output
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 04:16:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
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Hi, and what is printed when you give not a 16 digit number like 0.14 N[4209/0.14`100, 100] hmm Regards Jens Per Rønne wrote: > > 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