On Nov 10, 2009, at 5:54 AM, ryanhao wrote:
the data generated by MPB or MEEP is mostly in float format, which is only 6 numbers after the point. Eg:0.248182
    but sometime, I need more accuracy in data, Eg: for Differential.
    I have seen one of your explaination in the earlier email:
You can print out to double precision by just using a print statement in Scheme, e.g.

(print "the eigenfrequencies:" freqs "\n")

If you want to do computations with these numbers, you can also do them directly within your control file. If you want to compute derivatives, it might be a good idea to use the (deriv ...) function provided by libctl, which uses Ridder's method to compute numerical derivatives accurately by Richardson extrapolation.

The HDF5 files are output in double precision by default as well.

Steven

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