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Re: Help! About drawing a high-precision 3D graph

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  • Subject: [mg96372] Re: [mg96295] Help! About drawing a high-precision 3D graph
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:39:14 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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  • Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

I don't understand what you mean by Mathematica not supporting 15 
digits.  On most platforms, Mathematics supports approximate numbers 
with roughly 15 digits (unless you force higher precision); it's just 
that the default display of numbers only shows 6 digits.  But you can 
change the display by wrapping the number with NumberForm.

Nonetheless, I wonder what kind of output device you intend to use that 
can distinguish points apart to that high a precision!

Chris wrote:
> I met a problem with drawing a 3D graph. My data to be used in Mathematica 
 > Software is 15 digits, which means an example of those data is 
58.1234343253452.

These data represent the latitude an d longitude of world.

So, I need to precisely paint those coordinate in a 3D space as a tiny 
point,

perhaps the method ListPoint3D to be used.However, it seems that 
ListPoint3D

does not support morn than 6 significant digits. So, can anyone help me ?
> 

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