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Tal Kohavy
Tal Kohavy

Reputation: 609

How do I convert Matlab's solve() outcome to decimal?

syms pmt
PV=(pmt/1.12)*(1-(1/1.12^30));
solve(PV==200000,pmt)

Answer given is:

1008806316530991104000/4353278821822503

but what I want is:

231734.827430294

P.S. adding format short/long/whatever doesn't work.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 148

Answers (1)

Max
Max

Reputation: 1481

You need to convert the symbolic output of the solve-function into double. You can do that using the double-function:

syms pmt
PV=(pmt/1.12)*(1-(1/1.12^30));
result=solve(PV==200000,pmt);
double(result)

Upvotes: 4

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