[sage-support] Re: Low order digits from thin air

2011-12-12 Thread achrzesz
On Dec 12, 2:39 pm, v...@ukr.net wrote: > On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:16:17 -0600Jason Grout > wrote: > > > sage: round(-0.02800200,12) > > -0.028 > > > See > >http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/misc/functional.html?#sage... > >   Thanks a lot! :) >   It looks like I really should im

Re: [sage-support] Re: Low order digits from thin air

2011-12-12 Thread v_2e
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:16:17 -0600 Jason Grout wrote: > > sage: round(-0.02800200,12) > -0.028 > > See > http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/misc/functional.html?#sage.misc.functional.round > Thanks a lot! :) It looks like I really should improve my searching skills. Usually

[sage-support] Re: Low order digits from thin air

2011-12-12 Thread Jason Grout
On 12/12/11 7:11 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote: On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:42:19 -0800 (PST) Volker Braun wrote: A good read is "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic": http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html Thank your for the advice. I'll

[sage-support] Re: Low order digits from thin air

2011-12-12 Thread Volker Braun
A good read is "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic": http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr.