I'm sorry I wasn't clear, as I said I just started using Sage and I thought that was what the simplify method was for. Thank you very much for your explanation, now I got it :)
Il giorno giovedì 29 maggio 2014 18:53:23 UTC+2, Dominique Laurain ha scritto: > > We get in trouble with your question, because you used "simplify" > verb...which should have been refering to other SAGE simplifying functions > (floor, simplify symbolic expression and so on).... when you wanted to > "display only few significant digits of that real number". > > Function for you is : n(digits=...) > > Try this in cell to understand better : > > m = 12.0000000 ; print m > print type(m) > mr = m.n(digits=3) ; print mr > print type(mr) > x = m - mr + 1; print x > print type(x) > y = x.n(digits=5) ; print y > print type(y) > z = y ; print z > print type(z) > u = 1.000 > ur = u.n(digits=8) ; print ur > print "n() is attribute of object RealNumber :" > print z > print ur > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
