On Monday, March 5, 2012 9:22:14 PM UTC+8, William wrote: > > > > On Sunday, March 4, 2012, Irucka Embry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It would be very helpful to have an option to have a decimal answer when > performing calculations, especially when solving complex linear and/or > nonlinear equations, such as is possible with Matlab, GNU Octave, Scilab, > etc. It is very difficult to find any answers online, in the Sage search > engine, etc. to that question. > > > > Sage output is always displayed in decimal by default, so I do not > understand your question at all. >
I think what (s)he meant is that by default stuff is not printed in decimals, example: sage: log(3,2) log(3)/log(2) To the OP: To get the numerical result at the end, simply use .n() like: sage: log(3,2).n() 1.58496250072116 This is very useful since Sage can do exact computations, and does so by default (always?). There are some inherent precision problems if you use Matlab or Octave and you want accurate results. -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
