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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Interfacing Ada with C
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On 08/05/2010 10:24 AM, Ada novice wrote:
>
> They are much more accurate and better results of course. I wonder why
> Matlab tends to be give very "accurate" answers. Normally 15 digits of
> precision is also used there.

You requested 15 decimal digits; your results are zero to 15 decimal places. If 
you output in non-scientific notation you'd get zero; presumably that's what 
Matlab is doing.

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Jeff Carter
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