Hello another time, The model used for the representation of floating point numbers in Fricas and its relation to spad operations is explained in float.spad(.pamphlet).
Hope that helps. -- G. Vanuxem 2015-10-22 8:22 GMT+02:00 Grégory Vanuxem <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I think you should use outputFloating(10) > > Regards > > -- > G. Vanuxem > > > 2015-10-22 6:37 GMT+02:00 Alasdair McAndrew <[email protected]>: > >> If you start a new FriCAS, and then enter: >> >> (1) -> digits 10 >> (2) -> complexSolve(x^3-6*x-6=0,1.e-10) >> >> you obtain >> >> [x= 2.8473221018_6307233001_9122091471_217572689 - 0.4188072111 E -10 >> %i, >> x= - 1.423661051 - 0.283606001 %i, >> x= - 1.423661051 + 0.2836060010_2688149348_7508123507_7232122421 %i] >> >> which as you see contains floating point values with far more the the >> requested 10 digits. How can I ensure that all real and imaginary parts of >> the solution are displayed with only the 10 digits I want? >> >> Thanks, >> Alasdair >> >> -- >> [image: http://www.facebook.com/alasdair.mcandrew] >> <http://www.facebook.com/alasdair.mcandrew> [image: >> https://plus.google.com/+AlasdairMcAndrew/posts] >> <https://plus.google.com/+AlasdairMcAndrew/posts> [image: >> https://www.linkedin.com/pub/alasdair-mcandrew/a/178/108] >> <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/alasdair-mcandrew/a/178/108> [image: >> https://twitter.com/amca01] <https://twitter.com/amca01> [image: >> http://numbersandshapes.net] <http://numbersandshapes.net> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
