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### How to display the value of a very small number instead of "0." [duplicate]

I need to perform an integration. There is one particular value, which may be very small that is showing up as 0.. Is there any command in Mathematica 9 that will ...
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### How can I obtain more significant digits? [duplicate]

I type f1[x_] := 12 x^5 - 975 x^4 + 28000 x^3 - 345000 x^2 + 1800000 x N[f1[15.5], 15] and obtain 3.74112*10^6 BUT It´s not true!!! the result is larger than ...
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### Exp[x] answers 1 for small x [duplicate]

I'm getting the same answer "1" for Exp[x] with x less than "1.1*10^-16", and I really need to calculate much smaller numbers (in order of 10^-40). I tried using SetPrecision[Exp[x],1000]. Obviously ...
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### Oddity with ToExpression [duplicate]

Is this a bug? ToExpression["3231.432"] 3231.43 I would have expected the following: 3231.432 I am using Mathematica 10.2.0
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### On the precision of Table calculation [duplicate]

I want to add two arrays length and Apice, It's accuracy to six decimal places. When I use ...
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### Frontend displays wrong number digits [duplicate]

How do I change the default precision in Mathematica? Somehow the setting has been changed to 1 digit, so if I type Timing[...] I get {1., ...} which is not ...
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### Funny behaviour when plotting a polynomial of high degree and large coefficients

I am trying to plot a polynomial of degree $29$ on the domain $[0,1]$, with fairly large coefficients: ...
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### Mathematica Precision

How can I set the output precision of the following statement to 10 decimal places? I was looking through the documentation, and for some reason, all I could find was ...
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### A problem about function N

Toady,I have a problem about N,described as below: For example N[1/3, 5] (* ==> 0.33333*) and ...
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### Complex result for Real vectors in VectorAngle

I was expecting a real angle using VectorAngle when passing real valued vectors, but I obtained a complex angle: ...
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### Confused by (apparent) inconsistent precision

$$e^{\pi \sqrt{163}} \approx 262537412640768743.99999999999925$$ E^(Pi Sqrt[163.0]) N[E^(Pi Sqrt[163.0]), 35] NumberForm[E^(Pi Sqrt[163.]), 35] returns <...
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### Suppress trailing 0s in numerical values

For example, this is what I want In[1]:= N[Table[4^(i/4), {i, 1, 4}]] Out[1]= {1.41421, 2., 2.82843, 4.} But if I want a few more digits only from the irrational ...
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### How to make the imaginary part of a +0. I zero globally?

Values like a +0. I are really annoying. Answers from How to reduce expressions with complex coefficients in the form of a+0.*I？ Is there a way to globally set when to treat a very small number as ...