>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Lakeland <dlakelan at street-artists.org> writes:
Daniel> On 03/31/2013 05:21 AM, Volker van Nek wrote:
>> (%i1) 0.00017;
>> (%o1) 1.7000000000000001E-4
>> (%i2) fpprintprec : 12$
>>
>> (%i3) 0.00017;
>> (%o3) 1.7E-4
>>
>> fpprintprec = floating pont printing precision
>>
>> just controls printing and does not affect calculation.
>>
>> Maybe this is what you want.
Daniel> Yes I think this is what he wants. When working with floating point I
Daniel> often set fpprintprec:5 or so. Rarely do I care about more than about
Daniel> 5 digits of any number I read off the screen, since this just affects
Daniel> printing, it's perfect.
Oddly, I find setting fpprintprec to be somewhat annoying. For
example, if the value of x and y print the same, I expect x-y to be
zero. With a non-default of of fpprintprec, this isn't true. Then I
end up spending lots of time trying to figure out why until I remember
I set fpprintprec.
Ray