Re: Change in NSolve algorithm
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- Subject: [mg98616] Re: Change in NSolve algorithm
- From: ADL <alberto.dilullo at tiscali.it>
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:17:54 -0400 (EDT)
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Thank you for the clarification between MachinePrecision and
$MachinePrecision behaviors, which was not clear to me before.
Then, perhaps, a possible "communication" improvement for Mathematica
developers might be to substitute/alias the keyword MachinePrecision
with a new keyword, e.g. FPU, which would more easily convey the
difference between:
NSolve[eqns, vars, $MachinePrecision]
NSolve[eqns, vars, FPU]
Anyway, thanks again
ADL
On 13 Apr, 09:30, Szabolcs Horv=E1t <szhor... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, WorkingPrecision -> $MachinePrecision will use Mathematica's
> arbitrary precision arithmetic with $MachinePrecision number of digits
> (around 16 on most machines). WorkingPrecision -> MachinePrecision wil=
l
> actually use the FPU to do the calculations.