I have not been able to find the specification of Maple's fnormal. What
exactly does it do? Does it look for coefficients with small absolute
values? (test case 10^-15*a) Or small relative to the largest coefficient
in the polynomial? (a*10^-5 + b*10^20) Does it care whether the argument is
rational or float? (1.0e-15*a + b *vs.* 10^-15*a + b) Does it care at all
about the context of the expression? etc. It should be easy enough to
program any reasonable behavior, but we have to know what it is.
Thanks,
-s
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:38 AM, ????????? ??????? <aee at imm.uran.ru> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I need to equate small numbers to zero.I need such function that
> function(a*10^( - 15 )+b) will give b. The analogous function in Maple is
> fnormal.
>
> Thanks.
>
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