N(): is it possible to display less digits than those use to compute?

asked 2014-10-17 00:42:39 +0100

afullo
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Is there a way to do numerical computations in a certain precision, while displaying a lower number of digits, for example if I want to output a matrix of a certain dimension, and I would prefer a consistent layout?

An example with another CAS is format short in Matlab and Octave, which allows to compute in double precision (15 or 16 digits) by displaying only 5 digits.

Thanks in advance.

answered 2014-10-17 08:47:56 +0100

ndomes

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An example:

M = matrix(RR,3,3,range(1,10))
M ; M.n(digits=4)

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It works, manies of thanks. :) By the way, is there a similar command in order to display only the real part of the matrix elements? I have some computations in the complex field where imaginary parts should have cancellation, but due to roundoff they remain with a decimal magnitude of -13 or -14. Usual commands real and imag, along with their synonyms real_part and imag_part, both by writing real(x) and x.real(), seem not to work for matrices. Thanks again... EDIT: a workaround like (1/2)*A+(1/2)*A.conjugate() seems to work...

afullo ( 2014-10-17 17:35:46 +0100 )edit

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slelievre ( 2014-10-17 22:08:04 +0100 )edit

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