Subject: extracting the first N digits of a number
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:06:43 -0700
Barton Willis wrote:
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> -----maxima-admin@math.utexas.edu wrote: -----
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>>(1) is there a function in Maxima to extract
>>the first N digits in the decimal representation
>>of a number?
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> I don't think so.
Try this....
h: string(1.0/3);
?subseq(?symbol\-name(h),1,6);
Do you want a string? Or something else?
RJF