Advanced Search

wenipe

0 Reputation

2 Badges

14 years, 204 days
Contact wenipe

MaplePrimes Activity


These are questions asked by wenipe

Different rounding with evalf...

wenipe 0 Maple
eval
April 13 2011
1 2 
Why do I get different results for these four command? BTW only Result #2 is correct.
 
> evalf((1/2)*sqrt(3.0), 5);
                            0.86605
> evalf((1/1)*sqrt(3.0*(1/4)), 5);
                            0.86603
> evalf((1/1)*sqrt(3/4), 5);
                            0.86605
> evalf((1/2)*sqrt(3), 5);
                            0.86605
 
I have read the answer to a similar question, 
Page 1 of 1