Subject: newbie question: print rational as decimal number
From: Jaime Villate
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:55:12 +0000
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 23:39 +0100, andre maute wrote:
> what am I supposed to do for printing
> r :
> 254471799841260872232137838180485/566407006423962932969881084235776;
> as decimal number?
> r : 2/3;
> should result in
> 1.5
Sorry! We do not want to modify Maxima to make 2/3 = 1.5 ;)
On the other hand, check this out:
(%i1) numer: true$
(%i2) r : 2/3;
(%o2) .6666666666666666
(%i3) r :
254471799841260872232137838180485/566407006423962932969881084235776;
(%o3) 0.449273750068666
Cheers,
Jaime