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Re: number of digits in Maple

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On 08.01.2012 23:17, pluton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I understood well current computer can numerically handle 16 digits in floating points numbers. In Maple, the number of Digits can be controlled with th command Digits but looks like there is no difference between Numerical and Symbolic calculations. If I use kernelopts(maxdigits); my computer says 268435448 and I understand that Maple will use this number of digits for symbolic calculations but what about numerical calculations ?
>
> Thank you

As G A Edgar says/shows: you can choose what you want.

The system will find a way. Roughly: many digits are like
n-tuples of bytes, just as float64 is a n-tuple of ...

Holds for any CAS (if it allows it), not only Maple.

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number of digits in Maple pluton <plutonesque@gmail.com> - 2012-01-08 14:17 -0800
  Re: number of digits in Maple "Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@speakeasy.org> - 2012-01-08 21:01 -0800
    Re: number of digits in Maple "G. A. Edgar" <edgar@math.ohio-state.edu.invalid> - 2012-01-09 07:00 -0700
      Re: number of digits in Maple pluton <plutonesque@gmail.com> - 2012-01-09 07:31 -0800
        Re: number of digits in Maple "Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@speakeasy.org> - 2012-01-09 08:32 -0800
          Re: number of digits in Maple pluton <plutonesque@gmail.com> - 2012-01-09 12:30 -0800
  Re: number of digits in Maple Axel Vogt <&noreply@axelvogt.de> - 2012-01-09 22:44 +0100
  Re: number of digits in Maple acer <maple@rogers.com> - 2012-01-09 20:43 -0800
    Re: number of digits in Maple pluton <plutonesque@gmail.com> - 2012-01-16 20:45 -0800

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