Re: Issue 2886 in sympy: Float precision

2012-02-10 Thread sympy
Updates: Status: Fixed Comment #8 on issue 2886 by smi...@gmail.com: Float precision http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2886 Ondrej said it looked good, so I'm closing this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy-issues" group.

Re: Issue 2886 in sympy: Float precision

2012-02-03 Thread sympy
Comment #7 on issue 2886 by smi...@gmail.com: Float precision http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2886 Lots of documentation has been updated and Float("1.1234567890123456789") still returns 15 digit precision, but the digits can be 'counted' by using '' for prec: Float("1.123

Re: Issue 2886 in sympy: Float precision

2012-01-25 Thread sympy
Comment #6 on issue 2886 by smi...@gmail.com: Float precision http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2886 With pull request 998 the precision matches that of the entered string the same way that it does in the Decimal class ("The significance of a new Decimal is determined solely by

Re: Issue 2886 in sympy: Float precision

2012-01-02 Thread sympy
Comment #5 on issue 2886 by asmeu...@gmail.com: Float precision http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2886 I expect to result "3.769908" rather then "3.8". I don't. To me, 1.2 means anything from 1.11499... to 1.2... With that precision, you only know the result up to th

Re: Issue 2886 in sympy: Float precision

2012-01-01 Thread sympy
Comment #4 on issue 2886 by pr...@goodok.ru: Float precision http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2886 Sorry, incorrect example, starting from words "But at the same time (when the length is less then default 15)". I meant: >>> Float("1.2") 1.20 >>> _._prec

Re: Issue 2886 in sympy: Float precision

2011-12-22 Thread sympy
Comment #2 on issue 2886 by pr...@goodok.ru: Float precision http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2886 And about the case, when the length of string is greater then the default precision, Float("1.1234567890123456789") 1.12345678901235 I think it will be better to increase it i

Re: Issue 2886 in sympy: Float precision

2011-12-22 Thread sympy
Comment #1 on issue 2886 by pr...@goodok.ru: Float precision http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2886 If we adhere to the behavior of the mpmath 'from_str': http://mpmath.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/build/general.html#mpmathify-convert (except that we do not use global default valu

Issue 2886 in sympy: Float precision

2011-11-30 Thread sympy
Status: Accepted Owner: Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium New issue 2886 by asmeu...@gmail.com: Float precision http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=2886 Some questions about Floats and precisions. I don't know a whole lot about precision tracking, so I'm not sure if these th