Re: Rounding?
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- Subject: [mg60885] Re: [mg60881] Rounding?
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 01:54:37 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <200510010655.CAA13187@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 1 Oct 2005, at 15:55, Tom De Vries wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Sorry if this is an obvious question. I'm wondering why the two > results > below are different? > > I'm creating programs to generate test questions, and I need to > know that my > computer generated answers will match the student answers, to say, > three > decimal places. So the answer is -0.0625 "exactly", the first > result makes > sense to me, the second doesn't. > > If there is a reason for this, is there are way to insure I can > make the > first result look like the second result all the time?? > > > SetAccuracy[-0.0625,4] > > -0.063 > > ToString[SetAccuracy[-0.0625,4]] > > -0.062 > > > Thanks for your input! > > > Tom De Vries > > This is because ToString by default uses the OutputForm of your expression: OutputForm[SetAccuracy[-0.0625,4]] -0.062 Compare this with: ToString[SetAccuracy[-0.0625,4],TraditionalForm] -0.063 and ToString[SetAccuracy[-0.0625,4],InputForm] -0.0625`2.7958800173440745 Andrzej Kozlowski
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- Rounding?
- From: Tom De Vries <tom_toad@telus.net>
- Rounding?