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Re: strange problem
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Geraint Paul Bevan |
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Re: strange problem |
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Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:03:24 +0000 |
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Henry F. Mollet wrote:
| octave:14> x=-0.000000000000000020817
| x = -2.0817e-17
| octave:15> fix(x)
| ans = 0
| Henry
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| on 11/27/03 11:58 PM, Christoph Dalitz at
address@hidden
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|>Is there an Octave function that truncates/rounds such small numbers to
|>zero (like the Scilab function "clean")?
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|>I have tried "help round" and "help trunc", but found nothing appropriate.
|>
An unfortunate side effect of that approach would be the conversion of
all your other numbers to integers:
octave:1> fix (2.1)
ans = 2
- --
Geraint Bevan
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geraint.bevan
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