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The following example prints the square and cube of numbers from 0.5 to 6
Do[
Print[StringForm["the square of `` is ``, the cube of it is ``", i, i^2, i^3]],
{i, 0.5, 6, 0.1}]
It should be fine, however, for 0.7 Mathematica prints
the square of 0.7` is 0.48999999999999994`, the cube of it is 0.3429999999999999`
Why is the square of 0.7 approximated by 0.48999999999999994? No approximation will be made if I did not use StringForm, why is that?
By the way, there is a ` at the end of each output number, why is it there?
printing number-form
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The following example prints the square and cube of numbers from 0.5 to 6
Do[
Print[StringForm["the square of `` is ``, the cube of it is ``", i, i^2, i^3]],
{i, 0.5, 6, 0.1}]
It should be fine, however, for 0.7 Mathematica prints
the square of 0.7` is 0.48999999999999994`, the cube of it is 0.3429999999999999`
Why is the square of 0.7 approximated by 0.48999999999999994? No approximation will be made if I did not use StringForm, why is that?
By the way, there is a ` at the end of each output number, why is it there?
printing number-form
edited 33 mins ago
m_goldberg
88.4k872199
asked 7 hours ago
zyyzyy
1236
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The following example prints the square and cube of numbers from 0.5 to 6
Do[
Print[StringForm["the square of `` is ``, the cube of it is ``", i, i^2, i^3]],
{i, 0.5, 6, 0.1}]
It should be fine, however, for 0.7 Mathematica prints
the square of 0.7` is 0.48999999999999994`, the cube of it is 0.3429999999999999`
Why is the square of 0.7 approximated by 0.48999999999999994? No approximation will be made if I did not use StringForm, why is that?
By the way, there is a ` at the end of each output number, why is it there?
printing number-form
edited 33 mins ago
m_goldberg
88.4k872199
asked 7 hours ago
zyyzyy
1236
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The following example prints the square and cube of numbers from 0.5 to 6
Do[
Print[StringForm["the square of `` is ``, the cube of it is ``", i, i^2, i^3]],
{i, 0.5, 6, 0.1}]
It should be fine, however, for 0.7 Mathematica prints
the square of 0.7` is 0.48999999999999994`, the cube of it is 0.3429999999999999`
Why is the square of 0.7 approximated by 0.48999999999999994? No approximation will be made if I did not use StringForm, why is that?
By the way, there is a ` at the end of each output number, why is it there?
printing number-form
printing number-form
edited 33 mins ago
m_goldberg
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asked 7 hours ago
zyyzyy
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This is what happens when you use IEEE-754 double-precision math instead of exact math.
StringForm, InputForm, FullForm etc. give you all possible digits of these IEEE-754 double-precision numbers used internally. This is no different from any other programming language.
Other number display functions, like NumberForm, show fewer digits. The internal representation of the number doesn't change though.
The backtick ` indicates a machine-precision number, which is usually (always?) an IEEE-754 double-precision number.
You can get the result you're looking for by doing the conversion to numerical values after the squaring/cubing:
Do[Print[StringForm["the square of `` is ``, the cube of it is ``",
N[i], N[i^2], N[i^3]]], {i, 1/2, 6, 1/10}]
the square of 0.7` is 0.49`, the cube of it is 0.343`
answered 7 hours ago
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StringForm is very old. It goes all the back to V1.0, released in 1988, It represents an attempt by WRI to have a IO formatter that would appeal to programmers familiar with C and similar programming languages.
V6.0, released in 2003, added formatting tools that are not only easier to use but which are better integrated into Mathematica's way of doing things. One of the new IO formatters was Roe. It does have the problem with formatting machine numbers that you ran into by using StringForm.
Here is how you can get your output with Row.
Column[
Table[
Row[{"the square of ", i, " is ", i^2, ", the cube of it is ", i^3}],
{i, 0.5, 1., .1}]]
One of the nice features of the newer IO formatting tools is that they allow styles to be applied at almost any level. For example:
numStyle[num_?NumericQ] := Style[num, Red, Bold, Italic]
Style[
Column[
Table[
Row[
{"the square of ", numStyle[i], " is ", numStyle[i^2],
", the cube of it is ", numStyle[i^3]}],
{i, 0.5, 1., .1}]],
FontFamily -> "Arial"]
It isn't that you can't apply styles to StringForm output, but that it harder to do and requires more care.
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88.4k872199
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This is what happens when you use IEEE-754 double-precision math instead of exact math.
StringForm, InputForm, FullForm etc. give you all possible digits of these IEEE-754 double-precision numbers used internally. This is no different from any other programming language.
Other number display functions, like NumberForm, show fewer digits. The internal representation of the number doesn't change though.
The backtick ` indicates a machine-precision number, which is usually (always?) an IEEE-754 double-precision number.
You can get the result you're looking for by doing the conversion to numerical values after the squaring/cubing:
Do[Print[StringForm["the square of `` is ``, the cube of it is ``",
N[i], N[i^2], N[i^3]]], {i, 1/2, 6, 1/10}]
the square of 0.7` is 0.49`, the cube of it is 0.343`
answered 7 hours ago
RomanRoman
4,91011130
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add a comment |
$begingroup$
This is what happens when you use IEEE-754 double-precision math instead of exact math.
StringForm, InputForm, FullForm etc. give you all possible digits of these IEEE-754 double-precision numbers used internally. This is no different from any other programming language.
Other number display functions, like NumberForm, show fewer digits. The internal representation of the number doesn't change though.
The backtick ` indicates a machine-precision number, which is usually (always?) an IEEE-754 double-precision number.
You can get the result you're looking for by doing the conversion to numerical values after the squaring/cubing:
Do[Print[StringForm["the square of `` is ``, the cube of it is ``",
N[i], N[i^2], N[i^3]]], {i, 1/2, 6, 1/10}]
the square of 0.7` is 0.49`, the cube of it is 0.343`
answered 7 hours ago
RomanRoman
4,91011130
$endgroup$
add a comment |
$begingroup$
This is what happens when you use IEEE-754 double-precision math instead of exact math.
StringForm, InputForm, FullForm etc. give you all possible digits of these IEEE-754 double-precision numbers used internally. This is no different from any other programming language.
Other number display functions, like NumberForm, show fewer digits. The internal representation of the number doesn't change though.
The backtick ` indicates a machine-precision number, which is usually (always?) an IEEE-754 double-precision number.
You can get the result you're looking for by doing the conversion to numerical values after the squaring/cubing:
Do[Print[StringForm["the square of `` is ``, the cube of it is ``",
N[i], N[i^2], N[i^3]]], {i, 1/2, 6, 1/10}]
the square of 0.7` is 0.49`, the cube of it is 0.343`
answered 7 hours ago
RomanRoman
4,91011130
$endgroup$
This is what happens when you use IEEE-754 double-precision math instead of exact math.
StringForm, InputForm, FullForm etc. give you all possible digits of these IEEE-754 double-precision numbers used internally. This is no different from any other programming language.
Other number display functions, like NumberForm, show fewer digits. The internal representation of the number doesn't change though.
The backtick ` indicates a machine-precision number, which is usually (always?) an IEEE-754 double-precision number.
You can get the result you're looking for by doing the conversion to numerical values after the squaring/cubing:
Do[Print[StringForm["the square of `` is ``, the cube of it is ``",
N[i], N[i^2], N[i^3]]], {i, 1/2, 6, 1/10}]
the square of 0.7` is 0.49`, the cube of it is 0.343`
answered 7 hours ago
RomanRoman
4,91011130
edited 6 hours ago
answered 7 hours ago
RomanRoman
4,91011130
answered 7 hours ago
RomanRoman
4,91011130
answered 7 hours ago
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StringForm is very old. It goes all the back to V1.0, released in 1988, It represents an attempt by WRI to have a IO formatter that would appeal to programmers familiar with C and similar programming languages.
V6.0, released in 2003, added formatting tools that are not only easier to use but which are better integrated into Mathematica's way of doing things. One of the new IO formatters was Roe. It does have the problem with formatting machine numbers that you ran into by using StringForm.
Here is how you can get your output with Row.
Column[
Table[
Row[{"the square of ", i, " is ", i^2, ", the cube of it is ", i^3}],
{i, 0.5, 1., .1}]]
One of the nice features of the newer IO formatting tools is that they allow styles to be applied at almost any level. For example:
numStyle[num_?NumericQ] := Style[num, Red, Bold, Italic]
Style[
Column[
Table[
Row[
{"the square of ", numStyle[i], " is ", numStyle[i^2],
", the cube of it is ", numStyle[i^3]}],
{i, 0.5, 1., .1}]],
FontFamily -> "Arial"]
It isn't that you can't apply styles to StringForm output, but that it harder to do and requires more care.
answered 1 hour ago
m_goldbergm_goldberg
88.4k872199
$endgroup$
add a comment |
$begingroup$
StringForm is very old. It goes all the back to V1.0, released in 1988, It represents an attempt by WRI to have a IO formatter that would appeal to programmers familiar with C and similar programming languages.
V6.0, released in 2003, added formatting tools that are not only easier to use but which are better integrated into Mathematica's way of doing things. One of the new IO formatters was Roe. It does have the problem with formatting machine numbers that you ran into by using StringForm.
Here is how you can get your output with Row.
Column[
Table[
Row[{"the square of ", i, " is ", i^2, ", the cube of it is ", i^3}],
{i, 0.5, 1., .1}]]
One of the nice features of the newer IO formatting tools is that they allow styles to be applied at almost any level. For example:
numStyle[num_?NumericQ] := Style[num, Red, Bold, Italic]
Style[
Column[
Table[
Row[
{"the square of ", numStyle[i], " is ", numStyle[i^2],
", the cube of it is ", numStyle[i^3]}],
{i, 0.5, 1., .1}]],
FontFamily -> "Arial"]
It isn't that you can't apply styles to StringForm output, but that it harder to do and requires more care.
answered 1 hour ago
m_goldbergm_goldberg
88.4k872199
$endgroup$
add a comment |
$begingroup$
StringForm is very old. It goes all the back to V1.0, released in 1988, It represents an attempt by WRI to have a IO formatter that would appeal to programmers familiar with C and similar programming languages.
V6.0, released in 2003, added formatting tools that are not only easier to use but which are better integrated into Mathematica's way of doing things. One of the new IO formatters was Roe. It does have the problem with formatting machine numbers that you ran into by using StringForm.
Here is how you can get your output with Row.
Column[
Table[
Row[{"the square of ", i, " is ", i^2, ", the cube of it is ", i^3}],
{i, 0.5, 1., .1}]]
One of the nice features of the newer IO formatting tools is that they allow styles to be applied at almost any level. For example:
numStyle[num_?NumericQ] := Style[num, Red, Bold, Italic]
Style[
Column[
Table[
Row[
{"the square of ", numStyle[i], " is ", numStyle[i^2],
", the cube of it is ", numStyle[i^3]}],
{i, 0.5, 1., .1}]],
FontFamily -> "Arial"]
It isn't that you can't apply styles to StringForm output, but that it harder to do and requires more care.
answered 1 hour ago
m_goldbergm_goldberg
88.4k872199
$endgroup$
StringForm is very old. It goes all the back to V1.0, released in 1988, It represents an attempt by WRI to have a IO formatter that would appeal to programmers familiar with C and similar programming languages.
V6.0, released in 2003, added formatting tools that are not only easier to use but which are better integrated into Mathematica's way of doing things. One of the new IO formatters was Roe. It does have the problem with formatting machine numbers that you ran into by using StringForm.
Here is how you can get your output with Row.
Column[
Table[
Row[{"the square of ", i, " is ", i^2, ", the cube of it is ", i^3}],
{i, 0.5, 1., .1}]]
One of the nice features of the newer IO formatting tools is that they allow styles to be applied at almost any level. For example:
numStyle[num_?NumericQ] := Style[num, Red, Bold, Italic]
Style[
Column[
Table[
Row[
{"the square of ", numStyle[i], " is ", numStyle[i^2],
", the cube of it is ", numStyle[i^3]}],
{i, 0.5, 1., .1}]],
FontFamily -> "Arial"]
It isn't that you can't apply styles to StringForm output, but that it harder to do and requires more care.
answered 1 hour ago
m_goldbergm_goldberg
88.4k872199
edited 20 mins ago
answered 1 hour ago
m_goldbergm_goldberg
88.4k872199
answered 1 hour ago
m_goldbergm_goldberg
88.4k872199
answered 1 hour ago
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