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Re: Re: Replacing Values Close to One

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• Subject: [mg105298] Re: [mg105292] Re: Replacing Values Close to One
• From: Yuri Kandrashkin <spinalgebra at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:27:15 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,
Here is another version with Chop
{num, eps} = {1, 0.1}
Chop[{-8, .7, 0, 1.003} - num, eps] + num


2009/11/26 M.Roellig <markus.roellig at googlemail.com>

> On 26 Nov., 05:00, Gregory Lypny <gregory.ly... at videotron.ca> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Is there a replacement rule that I can apply to
> >
> >         {-8, .7, 0, 1.003}  /.  [what goes here?] -> 1
> >
> > to replace values that are close to 1, like 1.003, by 1?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >         Gregory
>
> Hi,
>
> you can use Chop which sets numbers close to zero to zero:
>
> {-8, .7, 0, 1.003} /. x_ :> (Chop[x - 1, 0.01] + 1)
>
>
> here I gave 0.01 as tolerance. Change it to your needs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Markus
>
>
-- 
Sincerely,
Yuri Kandrashkin

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