How to interpretate numbers below de MATLAB precision
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Fidel Souza
am 27 Feb. 2015
Kommentiert: James Tursa
am 27 Feb. 2015
How to interpretate numbers below 2.2204e-16?
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John D'Errico
am 27 Feb. 2015
No problem.
A = 1e-250
A =
1e-250
MATLAB has no problem with small numbers. Well, there is such a thing as too small.
Perhaps your question REALLY is how to work in higher precision than a double. For that you need to use either the symbolic toolbox, of my own HPF toolbox. Either will suffice, although they will be slower than working with doubles.
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James Tursa
am 27 Feb. 2015
If you are seeing numbers below 1e-324 I would seriously examine what problem you are solving and how you are going about doing it. Numbers that small are often a red flag that something in your method is wrong.
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Roger Stafford
am 27 Feb. 2015
Bearbeitet: Roger Stafford
am 27 Feb. 2015
You may have a misunderstanding of double precision floating point numbers, Fidel. The number 2.2204e-16 is the value of the least bit for a number that lies between 1 and 2, which is to say it is equal to 2^(-52). However, for smaller numbers, the least bit becomes correspondingly smaller. For example, if a number lies between, say, 1/32 and 1/16, the least bit will have a value of 2^(-57) = 6.9389e-18, representing a more precise value in absolute terms. The basic idea is that double precision (matlab's 'double') numbers have 53 bits to use for their significand (mantissa), so the ratio between the least bit value and the value of the number is always between 2^(-52) and 2^(-53), or roughly sixteen decimal places.
It is only when double numbers are smaller than 2^(-1022) where they become 'denormalized' that they begin to lose the sixteen decimal place precision, and these are exceedingly small numbers.
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