why coding this function returns un exact numerical results?

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Ackley's Function (a=20,b=0.2) d=2.
function [ y ] = objfun14 (phen )
d=size(phen,2);
v=cos(2*pi*phen); x=(1/d)* sum(v,2);
t=-20*exp(-0.2*sqrt((1/d)*sum(phen.^2,2))) - exp( x ) +20+exp(1);
y=sum(t,2);
end
%when phen=[0 0] the output should be t=0 however excuting the code gives t=8.8818e-16
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Scott MacKenzie
Scott MacKenzie on 22 Jun 2021
t=8.8818e-16 is pretty close to zero. You are dealing with floating point arithmetic, that's why the result is not exactly what you expect. See Floating-Point Numbers for further details.

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Kishan Dhakan
Kishan Dhakan on 23 Jun 2021
Try using 'format long', which shows 15 decimal places. If it still doesn't work, then your value is probably smaller than what many call 'machine epsilon' and hence is getting rounded to zero.

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