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Re: How can I transform the number of 123.456 into "123.456"?

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• Subject: [mg26662] Re: [mg26515] How can I transform the number of 123.456 into "123.456"?
• From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
• Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:47:17 -0500 (EST)
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Drago

> Can somebody explain the behaviour of RealDigits [89087.345]  - the last
number in the digits list!!!
>
> Greetings from Croatia,
> Drago Ganic

RealDigits [89087.345]

{{8, 9, 0, 8, 7, 3, 4, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1}, 5}

I have not sorted this out competely to my satisfaction but:

The HelpBrowser tells us that

"RealDigits[x] normally returns a list of digits whose length is equal to
Precision[x] "
(in this case the precision is 16).

It seems that the 1 is due to 89087.345 being converted to binary and back

We see more of what has happend with

RealDigits [89087.345, 10, 20]

{{8, 9, 0, 8, 7, 3, 4, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 6, 6, 7}, 5}

To mitigate this, up to a point, we can  use

89087.345`n

Which will pad with zeros:

{{8, 9, 0, 8, 7, 3, 4, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
    0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
    0}, 5}

Please see the NumericsReport under Getting Started/Demos > Demos


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