Grasshopper won't calculate values under 1.0e-13

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 6, 2017 at 6:40am

Grasshopper uses regular double precision mathematics. What you're seeing is rounding due to formatting. The value you're calculating is so close to zero that GH assumes it was actually meant to be zero. If you want to display numbers the way they really are, you need to use custom formatting:

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 6, 2017 at 6:42am

Incidentally if you want to know what sort of formatting instructions you can use, this page lists them all.

Permalink Reply by Lasse Kildemoes on April 6, 2017 at 7:01am

Thanks a lot both of you!