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Re: Help about comands in octave-3.2.4
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Re: Help about comands in octave-3.2.4 |
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Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:57:06 +0100 |
On 14 Feb 2014, at 22:50, Dmitri A. Sergatskov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Meseret Tesfaghebrial <address@hidden> wrote:
> hello
> can please give me some idea how to change a significant figure. because the
> normal significant figure is five. so want make it 15 significant figure.
> Thankyou
> Mimi kifle
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> Try "help format" at the octave prompt
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> Dmitri.
> --
Also, even though you are probably already aware
of this, it is worth remarking that Octave by
default uses double precision (64bit) floating point numbers
which have 16 "significant figures" what is shown on screen
is not related to the actual precision of the computations.
c.