Re: Mathematica Weirdness
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg116711] Re: Mathematica Weirdness
- From: Sebastian <sebhofer at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:32:44 -0500 (EST)
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On Feb 24, 12:26 pm, Daniel Lichtblau <d... at wolfram.com> wrote: > If instead you numerically evaluate using precision tracking you will > get a positive result. I'm curious: why does N[#,MachinePrecisison] evaluate to the wrong result while N[#,n], where n is any number (also smaller than 16), evaluates to the correct result? What is so special about MachinePrecision? Sebastian