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Re: Next representable number

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  • Subject: [mg73593] Re: [mg73542] Next representable number
  • From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:42:20 -0500 (EST)
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myCeiling[x_, digits_]:=Module[{incr=10^-digits},incr*Ceiling[x/incr]];

Table[myCeiling[Pi,n],{n,0,6}]//N

{4.,3.2,3.15,3.142,3.1416,3.1416,3.14159}


Bob Hanlon

---- Andrew Moylan <andrew.j.moylan at gmail.com> wrote: 
> What's a neat way to determine the next (higher) representable number
> (at a given precision)? That is, I want f[x] to be the smallest
> representable number (at precision Precision[x]) that's larger than x.



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