Re: Engineering Format

[Karl Zeilhofer]

But the exponent isn't a multiple of 3. That's the point of the matter.
you know the "engineering" prepositions kilo, mega, giga, milli, micro, 
nano, pico....

regards,
Karl

bharat pathak wrote:
> same thing exists in octave too.
>
> rgds
> bharat
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Karl Zeilhofer" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 2:31 PM
> To: <address@hidden>
> Subject: Engineering Format
>
> > Hy there,
> >
> > is there any way in octave to display numbers in engineering format.
> > e.g.
> > 245.958e-006
> > 1.24583e+003
> > 37.3455e-009
> >
> > i think you know what i mean.
> > in matlab there is the option "e" for "format"
> > >> format short e
> > this enables the engineering format display
> >
> > kind regards
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