Calculus with Matlab or octave

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/05/2008, hassen62 at voila.fr <hassen62 at voila.fr> wrote:
> > when we make some simple calculus with Octave or Matlab, how to have precise
> > results in more than 4 decimal numbers.
> 
> Octave uses double precision floats for almost everything which is
> about 16 decimal digits of precision. It just doesn't show all that
> precision by default, even if it does use it for computations.
> 
> If you want to see it, just type "format long", which will make Octave
> display it.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.
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Try also

help output_precision

and use, say,

output_precision(18)
.

Regards,
  Sergei.


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