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Re: Displaying decimals

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  • Subject: [mg63672] Re: Displaying decimals
  • From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 04:49:16 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: The University of Western Australia
  • References: <dpb0q8$1ph$1@smc.vnet.net>
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In article <dpb0q8$1ph$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 "Lea Rebanks" <lrebanks at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Given the enclosed function, I can not make Mathematica v5.1 display
> greater than 3 decimals. Please help.
>  
> slope[x_]:=160.245051009838+0.05888359189242*x
>  
> EG. slope[50] = 163.189
>  
> I don't know how or why this is happening.  I have tried N[expr,20] to
> no avail.

Others have provided solutions to this problem -- but, essentially, what 
you want to do is by default display more digits. Changing the 
PrintPrecision option using the Option Inspector, you can display more 
digits for all computations.

Cheers,
Paul

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