Weird behavior of NumberForm in ver 5.1
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- Subject: [mg55107] Weird behavior of NumberForm in ver 5.1
- From: Luis Rademacher <lrademac at hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:37:02 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Please compare the result of NumberForm between 5.0 and 5.1. It seems to
me that the right output is the one given by 5.0. Also tried a similar
example on 4.2, which seems to agree with 5.0
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In[1]:=
NumberForm[{0.073808836682`30,0.794740579742`30},5]
Out[1]//NumberForm=
{0.073809,0.79474}
In[2]:=
$Version
Out[2]=
5.0 for Linux (November 18, 2003)
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In[1]:=
NumberForm[{0.073808836682`30,0.794740579742`30},5]
Out[1]//NumberForm=
{0.073809,0.794740000000000000000000000000}
In[2]:=
$Version
Out[2]=
5.1 for Linux (October 25, 2004)
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Does anybody know what is going on here?
Luis.
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