Precision adjustments can be very important when you are making very accurate calculations. Matlab® provides various kinds of ways to adjust the precision of numbers and symbolic expressions. One of these ways is the use of the ‘vpa()’ command in Matlab®.
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Here, we explain how to use the ‘vpa()’ command in Matlab® to adjust the precision of variables and numbers. The code examples below are executed in the Matlab® command window. You can try it in your software also.
How To Use ‘vpa()’ Command In MatLab®?
>> vpa(17/7,10)
ans =
2.428571429
>> As you see in the very basic example above, we wrote two elements inside the ‘vpa()’ command. The first element is the numerical expression which is ’17/7′ above. And the second element is the precision value that we want.
The precision value is the number of digits that we want to see after the decimal comma. If you check the example above, the number of digits after the comma is 15.
Precision Of Symbolic Equations And Expressions In MatLab®
>> syms a b
vpa(10*a/7*b,10)
ans =
1.428571429*a*b
>> As you see in the example above, we created two symbolic variables ‘a’ and ‘b’ with the ‘syms’ command.
And we defined our numerical expression with these variables. You can see the result.
Conclusion
As you see that the use of the ‘vpa()’ command in MatLab® is very simple to adjust precisions of numbers and numerical expressions.
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