Re: On default numerical precision
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- Subject: [mg90675] Re: On default numerical precision
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:48:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi, $Post = ( # /. a_Real :> NumberForm[a, {32, 16}]) &; Regards Jens sergio_r at mail.com wrote: > Hello all, > > I am wonderin on how to change the mathematica default printing > precision, so I don't have to type on any defined constant the > required precision, like " `30 " in: > > In[1]:= a=2.3`30; b=2.1`30; > > In[2]:= a*b > > Out[2]= 4.83000000000000000000000000000 > > I would like to be able to do: > > a=2.3; b=2.1; and obtain > a*b = 4.83000000000000000000000000000 > > Regards, > > Sergio > PS. Apparently the internal variable $Pre could be set to do that, but > the respective help page [ http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/$Pre.html > ] is not clear about how to do that. >