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Re: Number of digits

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  • Subject: [mg73954] Re: Number of digits
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 01:20:29 -0500 (EST)

On 3/2/07 at 6:24 AM, robert.pigeon at videotron.ca (Robert Pigeon)
wrote:

>Good afternoon, How can I force Mathematica to output an answer with
>a certain number of significant digits ? What I mean is I want the
>answer of, let say, 1.0 / 3 to be output in Mathematica as 0.33 for
>example.

Use NumberForm, i.e.,

NumberForm[1.0/3,2]

will output 0.33
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