Re: setting output precision

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 05:42:31PM +0100, Prof. J. E. Cremona wrote:
> 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.

I think the "format" default is what you need:
? default("realprecision",100);
   realprecision = 105 significant digits (100 digits displayed)
? default("format","g0.10")
   format = g0.10
? Pi
%1 = 3.141592654
? round(%*10^50)
%2 = 314159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937511


The only problem I see is that you need to set it _after_ realprecision
which seems strange.

Cheers,
Bill.