Convert symbolic expression to floating point?

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This is about Symbolics.jl

I have a variableless symbolic expression wrap(Term(sqrt, [2])) as a way to represent an irrational constant symbolically. But at some point I want to actually compute the floating point value for that symbolic expression. How do I do that? unwrap or round or Float64 do not seem to do it.

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I don’t know if it’s the best solution, but I’ve used substitute with an empty dictionary for similar cases:


julia> using Symbolics

julia> using BenchmarkTools

julia> @btime substitute(x,Dict()) setup=(x=Symbolics.wrap(Symbolics.Term(sqrt, [2])))
  3.345 μs (26 allocations: 1.53 KiB)
1.4142135623730951

julia> @btime substitute(Symbolics.unwrap(x),Dict()) setup=(x=Symbolics.wrap(Symbolics.Term(sqrt, [2])))
  3.010 μs (18 allocations: 992 bytes)
1.4142135623730951