marcW wrote:
> hi,
> I'm new at this, some experience with mathematica.
> I spent the better part of 2 days trying to find out why
> f= a*x
> g=f.subs({a:0.6}]
> show(g)
>
> produces so many zeroes.lol. It's laughable.
> I've never seen something like this.
> It shouldn't be complicated to get rid of these zeros right?
>
It's to show the true precision of the number. 0.6 is a 53-bit
precision number, so the zeroes indicate that.
Note the difference between a 10-bit precision number and a 100-bit
precision number:
sage: RealField(100)(0.6)
0.60000000000000000000000000000
sage: RealField(10)(0.6)
0.60
Maybe there should be an option to not show the precision using the
zeroes? In general, I think showing the precision is a good idea.
Thanks,
Jason
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