Symbolic to double or very precise

Hi, I have an array like this

final_lst= [ 3.926602312047918778238533343627, 7.0685827456287320885529589275467, 10.210176122813030545468205594657, 13.351768777754093124209703822879, 16.493361431346409780773598432419, 19.634954084936207731575034033848, 22.776546738526000978837700244001, 25.918139392115794217316777165947, 29.059732045705587455779451237919, 32.201324699295380694242094678508]

It is a symbolic array. I need to make it a double precision number or any number type with the most number of values after decimal places. If I use eval, then it returns only 4 places after decimal. I need as much digits after decimal as possible and I need it to be in a normal array. Could someone help ?

Answer 1

[Ameer Hamza]

Among the natively supported datatype, double() will provide most precision. You can convert a vector from symbolic to double using double()

double(final_lst)

Note that the display in command window is not same as how the number is stored in memory. For example, If you want to see more number after decimal point, you can just use

format long
double(final_lst)

[Rik]

To further illustrate the point Ameer is making:

str='3.926602312047918778238533343627';
final_lst=sym(str);

fprintf('%s  - sym \n',str),fprintf('%.30f  - double \n',double(final_lst)),fprintf('%.30f  - eps \n',eps(double(final_lst)))

3.926602312047918778238533343627  - sym 

3.926602312047918985626893118024  - double 

0.000000000000000444089209850063  - eps 

[Ameer Hamza]

@Rik, Thanks for further illustrating the point.