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- From: litow@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (bruce e litow)
- Subject: mantissa based precision
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.151755.16946@uwm.edu>
- Originator: litow@proclus.csd.uwm.edu
- Keywords: mantissa, digits, modulo 1
- Sender: news@uwm.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:17:55 GMT
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- I often run experiments with a CA package where i am working with
- numbers modulo 1. The usual notion of floating precision is not what
- I want since digits to the left of the decimal point are irrelevant.
- So I have to write little procs to do what I want namely to mean
- by k digits precision that I retain k digits in the mantissa. Is there
- a feature that does this built into CA packages? I am especially
- interested in Maple, Macsyma or Axiom. Please email replies to me.
- Thanks.
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