[sage-support] Decimal Answers

2015-05-11 Thread Selah Bryce
How do you find the decimal that is equal to 7950734897590/87 -- 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 sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post

Re: [sage-support] Decimal Answers

2015-05-11 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Selah Bryce brycs...@hsd.k12.or.us wrote: How do you find the decimal that is equal to 7950734897590/87 You don't say how many places you want. There are lots of ways if that doesn't matter, for example 7950734897590/87.0 -- You received this message because

Re: [sage-support] Decimal Answers

2015-05-11 Thread kcrisman
How do you find the decimal that is equal to 7950734897590/87 You don't say how many places you want. There are lots of ways if that doesn't matter, for example 7950734897590/87.0 Or N(7950734897590/87) , assuming you haven't redefined N as N=10 or something during the session.

Re: [sage-support] Decimal Answers

2015-05-11 Thread Selah Bryce
Thank you. It gave me 9.13877574435632e10. What does that mean? On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 12:26:32 PM UTC-7, kcrisman wrote: How do you find the decimal that is equal to 7950734897590/87 You don't say how many places you want. There are lots of ways if that doesn't matter, for

Re: [sage-support] Decimal Answers

2015-05-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/11/2015 03:40 PM, Selah Bryce wrote: Thank you. It gave me 9.13877574435632e10. What does that mean? It means 9.13877574435632 times 10^10, or 91387757443.5632. The e10 at the end is scientific notation. I don't know where the 'e' came from, but I would guess it stands for exponent and

Re: [sage-support] Decimal Answers

2015-05-11 Thread Anton Sherwood
On 2015-5-11 17:21, Michael Orlitzky wrote: The e10 at the end is scientific notation. I don't know where the 'e' came from, but I would guess it stands for exponent and I would bet we use 'e' because there was no way to write a superscript when hand-held calculators were invented. O youth!