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From: "sunil vaidya" <sunil.vaidya@gmail.com>
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Subject: significant digits
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:06:23 +0000 (UTC)
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i'm running a prog in matlab which uses two matrix
inversions and one roots function. i have some inconsistency
in my results. does matlab truncate numbers beyond 16
significant digits? and if it does, is they any way around
this problem----can the accuracy be increased or something? 
TIA