Re: FractionalPart
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- Subject: [mg31255] Re: [mg31232] FractionalPart
- From: Tomas Garza <tgarza01 at prodigy.net.mx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 04:53:34 -0400 (EDT)
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The situation you describe has to do with the way Mathematica handles
numbers. Integers are exact, while reals are approximate. When you use
Log[a], where a is a list of integers, the whole expression becomes real,
and a very small error is introduced, in apparent contradiction to the
obvious. In your example below,
In[1]:=
FractionalPart[x[[5]]]
Out[1]=
1.
because
In[2]:=
IntegerPart[x[[5]]]
Out[2]=
4
The Help browser says "For exact numeric quantities, FractionalPart
internally uses numerical approximations to establish its result. This
process can be affected by the setting of the global variable
$MaxExtraPrecision. "
Tomas Garza
Mexico City
----- Original Message -----
From: "Juan" <erfa11 at hotmail.com>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg31255] [mg31232] FractionalPart
> Hello.
> I am new in Mathematica(also in english), and I have this question:
> I would like to know the behavior of the function FractionalPart.
> See here:
>
> In[1]:= a=Range[9]^2
> Out[1]= {1,4,9,16,25,36,49,64,81}
>
> In[2]:= x=Exp[.5 Log[a]]
> Out[2]= {1,2.,3.,4.,5.,6.,7.,8.,9.}
>
> In[3]:= FractionalPart[x]
> Out[3]= {0,0.,4.444089x10^-16,0.,0.,1.,0.,0.,1.,1.77639x10^-15}
>
> But it shoud be 0., all of them,no?
>
> Thanks. Juan
>
>
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- References:
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- From: "Juan" <erfa11@hotmail.com>
- FractionalPart