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From: | Rik |
Subject: | [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #36133] num2str displays more than 16 significant digits for large integer inputs |
Date: | Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:08:34 +0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0 |
URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36133> Summary: num2str displays more than 16 significant digits for large integer inputs Project: GNU Octave Submitted by: rik5 Submitted on: Sun 08 Apr 2012 08:08:33 PM PDT Category: None Severity: 3 - Normal Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Inaccurate Result Status: Confirmed Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: dev Operating System: GNU/Linux _______________________________________________________ Details: Example code: num2str (1e25) ans = 10000000000000000905969664 This should be '1' with 25 zeros after it. Matlab correctly masks large integer inputs to just 16 significant digits. For something really wacky try num2str (realma) _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36133> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
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