How to avoid long decimals and unnecessary fractions on syms calculation

Hello everybody,

I'm working on a robotic project in Master Science. I have a problem on calculating parametric symbolic in matlab. How can i avoid of this problem described in below?

Thanks in advance. Looking forward for your helps.

Best regards, Cem ÇAKMAK

Answer 1

[John D'Errico]

You can't avoid them, as long as you do symbolic computations. Symbolic computations are represented using integers and ratios of integers. But you can convert those ratios of huge integers back into a decimal form using vpa at the end.

[CEM CAKMAK]

Thanks for your help sir! Have a nice day :).

Answer 2

[madhan ravi]

vpa(yourmatrix,3)

[CEM CAKMAK]

Thanks for your answer. It worked too.