Re: Questions about printing and rounding Float numbers

[Jan Skibinski]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Michael Marte wrote:

> I always thought that the Int argument to showsPrec is the precision.
> So what is it good for? The library report does not explain it.

        I sometimes use it to distinguish between the top
        and the lower levels of nested data structures, which
        allows me to shorten the output, as in:

        Tensor [[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]],
        rather than
        Tensor [Tensor [1,2,3], Tensor [4,5,6], Tensor [7,8,9]].

        Jan