Re: a bug in RealDigits? Mathematica 5.0
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- Subject: [mg45229] Re: a bug in RealDigits? Mathematica 5.0
- From: "Read Predmore" <predmore.at.PredmoreAssociates.dot.com at giganews.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 03:42:21 -0500 (EST)
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The command
RealDigits[ t1 , 10 , 37 ]
works on Version 5.
It looks like "RealDigits[] is truncating the number of digits.
Hope this is helpful.
Read
"steve_H" <nma124 at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bs1btt$9pt$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> hello;
>
> Mathematica 5.0, student version, on XP home edition:
>
> t1 = 39383738378094852309445543850343.49494
>
> {c, d} = RealDigits[t1];
>
> now c is
>
> {3, 9, 3, 8, 3, 7, 3, 8, 3, 7, 8, 0, 9, 4, 8, 5, 2, 3, 0, 9,
> 4, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 8, 5, 0, 3, 4, 3, 4, 9, 4, 9}
>
> notice that I typed in the last digits of t1 as '.49494', i.e the
> number to the right of the decimal point.
>
> But 'c' above is missing the last digit, it only reports '4,9,4,9'
> instead of '4,9,4,9,4'
>
> What happened to the last digit '4' ?
>