Re: floating point issue
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- Subject: [mg87081] Re: floating point issue
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:04:41 -0500 (EST)
- Reply-to: hanlonr at cox.net
As shown previously, use 0 as the tolerance (dx) to force rational.
g = Rationalize[{-0.7071068, 0., -0.7071068}, 0]
Bob Hanlon
---- Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bob Hanlon wrote:
>
> > K = Rationalize[{111.5, 10.5, 1.5}, 0];
> > g = Rationalize[{-0.7071068, 0., -0.7071068}, 0];
> >
> > K.Cross[K, g]
> >
> > 0
>
> <smip>
>
> FWIW,
>
> On my system v6.0.2 Mac Os X 1.5.2 64-bit,
>
> g = Rationalize[{-0.7071068, 0., -0.7071068}]
>
> returns the list unevaluated. To get a list of nice/exact numbers, I
> must use *RootApproximant* (and of course K must be rationalized as
> well). Only then I can get the value of zero for the dot-cross product.
>
>
> In[1]:= $Version
> K = Rationalize at {111.5, 10.5, 1.5}
> g = RootApproximant at {-0.7071068, 0., -0.7071068}
> K.Cross[K, g]
>
> Out[1]= "6.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (February 7, 2008)"
>
> Out[2]= {223/2, 21/2, 3/2}
>
> Out[3]= {-(1/Sqrt[2]), 0, -(1/Sqrt[2])}
>
> Out[4]= 0
>
> In[5]:= K = Rationalize at {111.5, 10.5, 1.5}
> g = Rationalize at {-0.7071068, 0., -0.7071068}
> K.Cross[K, g]
>
> Out[5]= {223/2, 21/2, 3/2}
>
> Out[6]= {-0.707107, 0, -0.707107}
>
> Out[7]= 3.19744*10^-14
>
> In[8]:= K = {111.5, 10.5, 1.5}
> g = {-0.7071068, 0., -0.7071068}
> K.Cross[K, g]
>
> Out[8]= {111.5, 10.5, 1.5}
>
> Out[9]= {-0.707107, 0., -0.707107}
>
> Out[10]= 3.19744*10^-14
>
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Jean-Marc
>