Re: FixedPoint stops "when elements no longer change"?
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- Subject: [mg62962] Re: FixedPoint stops "when elements no longer change"?
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 05:10:41 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 12/8/05 at 12:04 AM, hattons at globalsymmetry.com (Steven T. Hatton) wrote: >Jean-Marc Gulliet wrote: >>In[16]:= l = FixedPointList[Cos, 1.]; >>In[17]:= NumberForm[l, Floor[$MachinePrecision] + 1] >This is from the commandline UI: >In[1]:= Information[$MachinePrecision] $MachinePrecision gives the >number of decimal digits of precision used for >machine-precision numbers. >Attributes[$MachinePrecision] = {Protected} >$MachinePrecision = 15.954589770191003 >Interestingly, I get a different result in the FrontEnd: >$MachinePrecision=15.9546 This is not a different result. It is the same result displayed differently, i.e., In[37]:=FullForm[$MachinePrecision] Out[37]:=15.954589770191003` By default, Mathematica displays only the first 6 digits of machine precision numbers. -- To reply via email subtract one hundred and four