RE: setting output precision

["Alan Simpson" <simpson_alan@hotmail.com>]

hello Professor Cremona (and others),

I had some code where I wanted to do something similar.

I used the following:
default(realprecision,100);
default(format,"g0.10");

I hope that helps.

> From: "Prof. J. E. Cremona" <John.Cremona@nottingham.ac.uk>
> To: pari-users@list.cr.yp.to
> Subject: setting output precision
> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:42:31 +0100
>
> Is there an easy way in gp to do computations to high precision (say, 100) 
> but only output in low precision (say, 10)?  I know that I can achieve this 
> by adding lots of lines like
> default(realprecision,100);
> default(realprecision,10);
> in my script, but thought there might be a better way of just turning down 
> the precision for output only.
>
> This is in a computation where intermerdiate stages have to be done to high 
> precision but (of course) I only need the result to low precision.
>
> John
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