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" <zeilhofer at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 2:31 PM
> To: <help-octave at cae.wisc.edu>
> 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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