Re: Simplifying polynomial and rounding problems
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- Subject: [mg82851] Re: [mg82801] Simplifying polynomial and rounding problems
- From: "W. Craig Carter" <ccarter at mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 05:16:42 -0500 (EST)
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I suggest that you take advantage of mathematica's ability to do things exactly. Transform your reals to rationals: Rationalize[0.6721560269293043, 10^(-16)] goes to 48760501/72543426. Let the fractions remain in your factorization, and then if you want a numerical result later, convert using N[expr,NumberOfDigitsInPrecision] Craig On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Isaac Martinez G. wrote: > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:14:15 -0500 (EST) > From: Isaac Martinez G. <isaac.martinez at sbcglobal.net> > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg82801] Simplifying polynomial and rounding problems > > I am having problems with Mathematica precision/accuracy (or whatever you call it) > I have the following expression > A1=1.0000000000000002-0.6721560269293043s^2 - 0.32784397307069685s^4 > Now when I factorize: > There are a couple of (-1+s)(1+s) factors or something very close to 1. Like 0.999999999999999997+s > I want to elliminate those factors but due to the fact that it is not really 1, but 0.999999999999999997 Mathematica does not always cancel those factors neither with A1/((-1.+s)(1.+s)) nor A1/((-1+s)(1+s)). > How can I avoid the problem of 1 versus 0.999999999999999997 > I am doing directional coupler design and I do need to elliminate some factors from an ABCD matrix where 5 to 6 decimal places is just fine in the last step. > I have tried > Factor[] > Cancel[] > FactorList[] > but I always have this problem and it screws up my program. > Sorry, I am new to Mathematica > > I am new to Mathematica..... > >