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Re: Computing square-root of two [Was: Re: No subject]
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Martin Helm |
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Re: Computing square-root of two [Was: Re: No subject] |
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Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:54:17 +0100 |
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Am 17.02.2012 16:35, schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
> On 17 February 2012 09:36, Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden> wrote:
>> What is 'vpa' ?
> Variable precision arithmetic. Part of the symbolic package.
I guess that should be
pkg load symbolic
vpa(Sqrt(2))
^^^
and not vpa(sqrt(2)) which is useless since the sqrt calculates the
standard double prec answer in octave instead of the arbitrary prec
answer from symbolic
Re:, Martin Helm, 2012/02/17
Re: your mail, lxnf98mm, 2012/02/17
Computing square-root of two [Was: Re: No subject], Vic Norton, 2012/02/17