Re: Repeating decimals
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg29213] Re: Repeating decimals
- From: "Tom Hardy" <tomhardy at COX.RR.COM>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 05:30:47 -0400 (EDT)
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Look at SetPrecision. "Tom De Vries" <tdevries at shop.westworld.ca> wrote in message news:9fbnsu$1dp$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Hi again! > > In my previous posting, I had asked some questions about representing > decimals. I did a bit more reading and found out about the machine > precision of real numbers, and that answers a lot of my questions about how > things are represented by Mathematica. > > So here is another question. Has anyone written a function that will do a > division of two integers to any number of decimal places, where "any" can be > stipulated by the user? > > Tom De Vries > > > >