Donna;
Personally I've never seen significant digit aritmetic (which is only
meningful for display of numbers) built in to a language. I have never used
Mathematica, MatLab nor Maple, so I could just be sheltered. I could posit
building utilities to handle it:
'12.3' plusSD '.0012'
12
'12.3' timesSD '45.6'
561
so, it's doable, and the maintainers of one database we resold swore by it,
but no one seriosly wanted to pay for it as a feature. I never saw much
consideration for it beyond first-year science labs.
YMMV, of course.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "dly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] significant digits
Now this was my original point!
I wanted to know the SIGNIFICANT digits. (oddly enough the subject of my
post) and I wanted this to be reflected no matter what the for of display
or internal storage.
see my IMD (in my dreams) post
Donna
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On 29-Jun-06, at 12:22 PM, Don Guinn wrote:
I remember something about a convention which has been lost with the
advent of computers of writing a number, say "2.5" implied that the
measurement was good to a tenth, where "2.500" implied it was good to a
thousant.
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