Re: Weird behavior of NumberForm in ver 5.1
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg55192] Re: Weird behavior of NumberForm in ver 5.1
- From: Luis Rademacher <lrademac at hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:36:12 -0500 (EST)
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Bob Hanlon wrote: > NumberForm[{0.073808836682`30,0.794740579742`30},5] > > {0.073809,0.794740000000000000000000000000} > The fact that the second element of the list _was_ modified (replacing many decimals with 0) means that this is not related to NumberForm not being listable. In fact, the documentation says that it "prints with approximate real _numbers_ in expr", suggesting that it works with whole expressions and not just an individual number. And it worked in previous versions. The documentation has even an example with a list as an argument. Luis.