How to get a random number without trailing zers from rand()?

Posted on 2008-05-06 14:20 By kharal9 (

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I used rand() to get a list of random numbers between 0 and 1. It gives me something like

[.30000000, .50000000, .20000000]

But I want this to be like [.3,.5,.2]. As my code tells that both the above lists are unequal !!! How ? kindly explain me.

regards,

Athar

you could try fnormal or evalf[n]

Comment on 2008-05-06 15:25 from Axel Vogt ( Maple Rating 4

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[.30000000, .50000000, .20000000]: evalf[1](%);
                           [0.3, 0.5, 0.2]

[.30000000, .50000000, .20000000]: convert(%,rational): evalf[1](%); 
                           [0.3, 0.5, 0.2]

[.30000000, .50000000, .20000000]: fnormal(%,3);

                        [0.300, 0.500, 0.200]