"format short f"

[John W. Eaton]

On  4-Aug-2000, Dirk Laurie <address@hidden> wrote:

| I know that Matlab is like that too, but I find the insistence on 
| significant figures at all times annoying.

See if setting fixed_point_format = 1 does what you want.  It should
make the output behave in a more Matlab-like way.  For example

  octave:6> [1e6, 1e-6; 1e-6, 1e6]
  ans =

    1.0e+06  *

    1.00000  0.00000
    0.00000  1.00000

  octave:7> hilb(5) * invhilb(5)
  ans =

     1.00000   0.00000  -0.00000   0.00000  -0.00000
    -0.00000   1.00000  -0.00000   0.00000  -0.00000
     0.00000  -0.00000   1.00000  -0.00000   0.00000
    -0.00000   0.00000  -0.00000   1.00000   0.00000
    -0.00000   0.00000  -0.00000   0.00000   1.00000


The reason it is not the default is that it can cause you to think
numbers are zero when they are really just several orders of magnitude
smaller that the largest values in the matrix.  I also think it is
easy to miss the scale factor.

jwe



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