When with rounding and precision

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Daulton_Benesuave 2016-2-18

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I am calculating the following: p15 = 0.8683*1.15

When I round to 5 decimal places round(p15,5) the answer is 0.99854 since Matlab sees full precision as 0.9985449999999999.

You can confirm this by typing sprintf('%1.30f',.8683*1.15)

ans = 0.998544999999999900000000000000

Unfortunately, I need to match the output of a standard calculator (don't ask why) and need to have the output as 0.99855. How is this possible via Matlab?

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Walter Roberson 2016-2-19

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round(p15 * 1e6)/1e6

By the way, you cannot see the full precision on MS Windows by using sprintf(), but you can on OS-X

0.99854499999999990489385481851059012115001678466796875

On MS Windows you should see http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22239-num2strexact--exact-version-of-num2str-

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MHN 2016-2-18

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What you said is not true! for multiplication the exact number is : 0.998545000000000

    p15 = 0.8683*1.15;
    r = round(p15,5);

then p15 = 0.998545000000000 and r = 0.998550000000000.

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Walter Roberson 2016-2-19

The MS Windows version of the C library is rubbish at printing out complete numbers. The Linux version is better now but there was historically a period during which the library used for it had an error in extended printing. I do not know of the OS-X library has always been correct, but I do not recall hearing of any problems for it in this regard.

MHN 2016-2-19

I did not mean that there is a "problem" in sprintf. I meant even when we just assign a value like a=0.1; and then we use sprintf('%1.50f',a) the exact value is not 0.1. So, as long as one use sprintf and the floating point system, it will not get the result 0.100000000000000000000000000000000000000000.

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