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From: | John W. Eaton |
Subject: | Re: format short output with small numbers (bug #56936) |
Date: | Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:22:25 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 |
On 9/24/19 1:19 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
On 9/23/19 5:14 PM, Rik wrote:All, What should happen when we display small numbers with "format short"(default)? Should we end up printing a lot of zeros? That is what happensnow. x = [-pi;0;pi]; x*1e-6 ans = -0.0000031416 0 0.0000031416In earlier Octave versions we would switch over to scientific notation at acertain point. These are the results from version 3.4.3
I realize I may have missed the point of your question. If the behavior changed, then I don't know that it was intentional. Is the situation now that there is no point where the switch happens?
jwe
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