Re: Re: Re: Replacing Values Close to One
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- Subject: [mg105321] Re: [mg105298] Re: [mg105292] Re: Replacing Values Close to One
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:05:03 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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I think all the proposed solutions begged a fundamental question arising
here: what does "close to 1" (or to any other specified number mean).
That is, was the original poster asking about absolute error or relative
error?
Of course in the case that the target is 1, there will be no
distinction, but for other targets, where will be.
Yuri Kandrashkin wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
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- From: "M.Roellig" <markus.roellig@googlemail.com>
- Re: Re: Replacing Values Close to One
- From: Yuri Kandrashkin <spinalgebra@gmail.com>
- Re: Replacing Values Close to One