Mathcad vs Prime rounding

[ppal]

In mathcad 15:

The answer is as expected. In Prime there are rounding issues. How do I eliminate this rounding?

[Fred_Kohlhepp]

I believe this is an artifact of "zero tolerance" setting; there is always calculation error, and a setting below which small numbers are not displayed.  10^-16 is pretty small!

[ppal]

Pretty small is not good enough. Zero is what we are after. Pretty small leaves a lot of clutter on the work sheet.

[LucMeekes]

This occurs due to differences in 'zero threshold' settings between Prime and Mathcad, like Fred indicated.

In Mathcad (no Prime) you can set the 'zero threshold' value to an exponent (of 10) and values that are within that distance from zero are displayed as 0. The range for 'zero threshold' is 0 to 307 and the default is 15, so values between + and - 10^-15 are displayed as 0.

In Prime (express) I can find no control to set a zero threshold, This means that any value different from 0 that can be reprepresented withing the floating point range is shown as is:

Success!
Luc

[ppal]

How do you display this complex part as zero? A^3 is = 1

[LucMeekes]

Set the complex threshold. But that too is only available in Mathcad, not in Prime.

Luc

[LucMeekes]

maybe this helps:

Success!
Luc

[LucMeekes]

I've taken it a little further.

For those that want to do it the hard way and work in Prime, but do need the Zero and Complex threshold facility, here's a format routine that will format just about everything based on two constants.

Success,

Luc

[ppal]

Wow, that's a lot of work. Appreciate you efforts.

[MJG · Accepted solution]

Change the result formatting to decimal.

Formatting -> Results -> change "General" to "Decimal"

[Fred_Kohlhepp]

Yeah, but that has it's  own set of problems:

[MJG]

Understood.  Depending on OP's situation, it may or may not be helpful.  But I thought it was worth noting.

If this is a problem for OP, then Luc's "Complex(z)" function above is probably the best work-around.

[ppal]

Too easy!! - thanks.