Re: defining precision (Q:)
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- Subject: [mg11456] Re: defining precision (Q:)
- From: Paul Abbott <paul@physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 01:34:09 -0500
- Organization: University of Western Australia
- References: <6dv5r8$5p4@smc.vnet.net>
m. r. schaferkotter wrote: > i would like Mathematica3.0 to act as though it is producing > single-precision results. Numbers: If you set $MaxPrecision as well as $MinPrecision , then you can force all arbitrary-precision numbers to have a fixed precision of n digits. In effect, what this does is to make Mathematica treat arbitrary-precision numbers in much the same way as it treats machine numbers but with more digits of precision. Cheers, Paul ____________________________________________________________________ Paul Abbott Phone: +61-8-9380-2734 Department of Physics Fax: +61-8-9380-1014 The University of Western Australia Nedlands WA 6907 mailto:paul@physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://www.pd.uwa.edu.au/~paul God IS a weakly left-handed dice player ____________________________________________________________________