From help-request at octave dot org Fri Jun  3 00:55:35 2005
Subject: Re: possible to disable multipliers?
From: "Phillip M. Feldman" <pfeldman at verizon dot net>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa dot epi dot umn dot edu>,         Help-Octave List <help@octave.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 22:54:34 -0700

I added "fixed_point_format= 0" to one of the startup files, and the behavior is
now as desired.

Thanks!

Phillip

John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  2-Jun-2005, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> | On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Phillip M. Feldman wrote:
> | 
> | > (From a complete Octave newbie).
> | >
> | > When displaying an array in Octave, the program often takes out a power 
> | > of ten that is displayed as a multiplier.  Is there a way to disable 
> | > this?  (This is one of the few differences between Octave and MATLAB 
> | > where I prefer the MATLAB behavior).
> | 
> | MATLAB doesn't do this?
> 
> As far as I know, it does.  That's why I implemented the feature in
> Octave.  But it is not and has never been the default behavior for
> Octave.  The scaling only happens if you have the built-in variable
> fixed_point_format set to a nonzero value (which will also happen if
> you start Octave with either the --traditional or --braindead option).
> 
> jwe
> 
> 



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