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Re: Is double precision for floating point calculation the default?


From: José Abílio Matos
Subject: Re: Is double precision for floating point calculation the default?
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 10:35:11 +0000

On Saturday, 21 March 2020 03.59.34 WET ttonon wrote:

> Greetings,

> In a program, I need all my calculations, which are floating point decimal,

> to be double precision (accurate to 10E-16). Is that the default, or must I

> make an explicit command for that precision, and if so, what is the

> command? Thanks.

>

> Tom

 

Yes it is the default:

 

As an example:

 

>> class(5)

ans = double

>> eps(1)

ans = 2.2204e-16

 

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José Matos


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