Re: variable precision arithmetic (vpa) errant results in windows 10, octave-4.0.1

[Colin Macdonald]

On 21/06/16 21:30, reik red wrote:
> As you can see, the number "1/3" is inaccurately represented when digits

I haven't read all that but have you read "help vpa"?

There are ok:

vpa("1/3", 64)
vpa(sym(1)/3, 64)
vpa(1, 64)

Whereas vpa(1/3, 64) first creates the a double precision floating point 
number near 1/3 and then converts it to have 64 digits, which must be lossy.

Colin