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RE: Rounding Errors and Irregulars?

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  • Subject: [mg42023] RE: [mg42015] Rounding Errors and Irregulars?
  • From: "Florian Jaccard" <jaccardf at eicn.ch>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 05:42:41 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Sure !

For example :

SetPrecision[IntegerPart[10^9*Pi]/10^9., 10]

Greetings

Florian Jaccard


-----Message d'origine-----
De : Jason [mailto:jason at thinkingman.org]
Envoyé : lun., 16. juin 2003 09:58
À : mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Objet : [mg42015] Rounding Errors and Irregulars?


Hi

Is there a way to tell Mathematica not to *round* ?

Example:
In[x]:= SetPrecision[Pi, 10]

Out[x]:= 3.14159265{4}

The {4} is rounded, non-rounded should say {3}.

Thanks,
Jason



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