There are a number of interact examples on the wiki (such as the Gram-
Schmidt one at http://wiki.sagemath.org/interact/linear_algebra) that
work around this problem by casting to a field of low precision, for
example doing something like
latex(RealField(8)(0.6))
produces "0.60".
Hope that helps,
Marshall Hampton
On Nov 17, 9:02 am, Stan Schymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A week older and still not smarter...
> Sorry for the noise, but I am still trying to find a way of getting
> useful latex output for equations that contain decimal numbers. It
> seems that the previous posts passed below the radars of those that
> might know the answer, so I am trying to push it to the surface again.
> Isn't anybody else bothered by rows of 0s in the latex() or show()
> output?
>
> Cheers
> Stan
>
> On Nov 10, 1:25 pm, Stan Schymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > It seems thatlatex(eqn) just evaluates eqn and prints the result
> > inlatexnotation, without cutting off annoying 0s or giving the user the
> > opportunity to set a precision. I find this very annoying, as
> > suchlatexoutput is not very useful for illustration purposes. Does anyone
> > know a trick how to automatically round ugly numbers for thelatex
> > output? I feel that this should be incorporated into thelatex() code,
> > though.
> > Here is another illustration of the problem:
>
> > latex(0.6*x)
> > {0.600000000000000 x}
>
> > latex(0.6.n(digits=4)*x)
> > {0.599998500000000 x}
>
> > The second attempt became even uglier!
>
> > This is on sage 3.1.4 on an Intel Macbook Pro.
>
> > Thanks for your help! (Anyone?)
> > Stan
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