From: Jeff Krampf on
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> If you wish to use a particular number of decimal places (e.g., suppose
> you had reason to evaluate to 25 decimal places -- or reason that the
> arithmetic should be done in 10 decimal places rather than floating
> point), use vpa()
>
> If you wish to convert to Matlab double precision numbers, use double().
>
> > and also, is there anyway to make it only display positive
> > values since those are the ones I am interested in?
>
> That could be done at the symbolic level, but I would have to
> cross-check the references to be sure I was telling you the correct way.
> And it wouldn't be short or simple.
>
> So, what I suggest is that you use double() to convert the values and
> store that in a Matlab array, and then use logical indexing to select
> the ones you are interested in. For example, if the symbolic results
> were in S, then:
>
> sd = double(S);
> sd = sd(real(sd) > 0 & imag(sd) == 0);

Ah perfect, thank you for all the help. That's more than I had hoped to accomplish at once.

Thank you, I appreciate the assistance,
Jeff