Re: beauty or accuracy
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- Subject: [mg103875] Re: [mg103858] beauty or accuracy
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:08:58 -0400 (EDT)
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In Mathematica, the result is accurate, but the default display is 6 digits. 42500-1907.25 %//FullForm 40592.8 40592.75` Bobby On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:18:05 -0500, Li Zhengji <zhengji.li at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > 42500 - 1907.25 = 40592.8 > (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=42500+-+1907.25) > > I do believe that it is because Mathematica "thinks" it's *better* to > limit the result to six digits, so 0.75 is rounded to 0.8. > > But, don't you think that the result is a little strange, or inaccurate? > -- DrMajorBob at yahoo.com
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- beauty or accuracy
- From: Li Zhengji <zhengji.li@gmail.com>
- beauty or accuracy