showing decimals of irrational numbers and irregular fractions
Subject: showing decimals of irrational numbers and irregular fractions
From: Alexey Beshenov
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:10:58 +0300
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:46, Justin Harford wrote:
> When I type something like
> sqrt(2)
> or
> 3/2
> maxima shows it exactly as I wrote it. Is there a way I can make it
> show the results in decimal form?
float/bfloat?
(%i1) sqrt(2);
(%o1) sqrt(2)
(%i2) float(%o1);
(%o2) 1.414213562373095
--
Alexey Beshenov <al at beshenov.ru>
http://beshenov.ru/
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