problems with N[]
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- Subject: [mg38687] problems with N[]
- From: "1.156" <rob at piovere.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 06:33:48 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I'm getting a numerical output which has about 12 significant digits. I wanted to give a printout to someone and I need only 4 significant digits (otherwise it represents a result to precise). I thought that was what N[] was for so I put out N[result,4]. For some reason I still get 12 digits displayed. I looked through he help material and it says "n must lie between $MinPrecision and $MaxPrecision. $MaxPrecision can be set to Infinity. " I checked and these numbers are 0 and 10^6, respectively. So, I gave up on N[] and tried Ceiling[10000*result]/10000 and damn if I didn't get "6/625" for an answer. I want to display a decimal result with 4 significant digits, can anyone tell me how to do it? Thanks.
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