Recently I had a small problem with Julia that confused me. The code is shown below: Julia> x=2.0e-10 2.0e-10 Julia> -1.0*(-0.5*x^3 - 3.0*x^2 - 7.5*x - 7.5)*exp(-x)/x^6 + 1.0*(0.5*x^3 - 3.0*x^2 + 7.5*x - 7.5)*exp(x)/x^6 0.0 Julia> x=2.1e-10 2.1e-10 Julia> -1.0*(-0.5*x^3 - 3.0*x^2 - 7.5*x - 7.5)…

Numerical precision

lmiq March 30, 2022, 2:44pm 3

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