[Gretl-users] Re: how to avoid "useless" 0 after the decimal

Am 28.10.2020 um 15:09 schrieb Ioannis Venetis: Hi, as a related function let me point out that in the "extra" addon (that is automatically shipped with gretl) we have zeroifclose() which is aimed at matrix arguments, however. There the default but settable threshold is 1e-12. Example: <hansl> include extra.gfn matrix m = {1e-17, 1e-8} zeroifclose(&m) print m </hansl> But a much more fundamental point is that this is simply the old thing about floating-point arithmetic, where rounding and inexact representation occurs. In most cases for the computer there is no real difference between 1e-17 and 0. Therefore programming is best done a little differently from what the algebraic formulas tell us. There is a lot of classic literature about this. cheers sven