Re: Precision of output
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- Subject: [mg48235] Re: Precision of output
- From: spam at husumtoften.invalid (Per Rønne)
- Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 02:42:11 -0400 (EDT)
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Peltio <peltio at twilight.zone> wrote: > You can see up to 16 digits for this result but no more than that, by using > > NumberForm[N[4209/0.14,100],100] > > Which as far as I know should be equivalent to > > NumberForm[N[4209/0.14],16] Thank you. I didn't even know of the existence of that function - though it is mentioned in The Mathematica Book 5th Edition on page 1227. And, I see, on pp 435-37. "Getting Started with Mathematica" doesn't even know of the function -- Per Erik Rønne