Re: Some more decimals

[Etienne Grossmann]

  Hello,

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:25:45PM +0100, Ricardo Cervera wrote:
#       Hello.
# 
#       I study in a secondary school (my last year) in Spain and I've
# discovered Octave. I like it but sometimes find the manual too advanced
# for simple purposes, and can't get how to do them.
# 
#       My first doubt, I would need to get more decimals when I use fsolve,
# because I only get five. Could you help me?

  More decimals, like the number of *displayed* digits, or the actual
precision i.e. |computed_sol - true_sol| < 1e-5? For the later,
fsolve_option ("tolerance",tol) should help you.

#       At last, I'm thinking in writing a document in order to help people
# like me to get using Octave soon, explaining things at a more basic
# level. If I do, would you help me?

  Send us the drafts (or links to the drafts).

  Cheers,

  Etienne
 
#       Thanks.
# 

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Etienne Grossmann ------ http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~etienne



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