Oh, ok, so this issue should be older than Fricas Version: FriCAS 1.2.4 - Timestamp: Tue, Nov 25, 2014 10:41:42 PM (the version I use)
Cheers -- G. Vanuxem 2015-10-22 10:53 GMT+02:00 Alasdair <[email protected]>: > Note - the behaviour in Axiom is as it should be, the results returned are > > [x= 2.847322102, x= - 1.423661051 - 0.283606001 %i, > x= - 1.423661051 + 0.283606001 %i] > > Clearly there's something a little amiss in the floating point routines of > FriCAS. > > > On Thursday, 22 October 2015 15:37:21 UTC+11, Alasdair wrote: >> >> 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.
