Re: Calculus with Matlab or octave

by Ben Abbott :: Rate this Message:

On May 9, 2008, at 7:39 PM, hassen62@... wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> when we make some simple calculus with Octave or Matlab, how to have
> precise results in more than 4 decimal numbers.
>
> example:2.9014567*8.9665531;#the result in Octave prompt is
>
> ans=26.016
>
> I would like to obtain a result with also six decimal figures and
> not three(016).
>
> Thank you very much
>

Its not exactly "Calculus", but if you want more precision ...

> x = 2.9014567*8.9665531;
> num2str (x, "%16.12g")

Ben

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