kcrisman wrote: > >> Incidentally, doing everything with floats would I >> think be *very* inappropriate for an undergrad class in linear >> algebra, where most of the by hand problems require the students to >> use rational numbers. > > Yes, which is why he only uses Octave for half the semester, I think, > or something like that. >
Remember that both octave and matlab have a "format rat" mode, which displays fractions instead of floating point numbers. Rounding to get these nice displayed numbers is another issue, but it does look prettier and closer to what you do by hand. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
