From help-octave-bounces at octave dot org Mon Apr 17 15:45:29 2006
Subject: Re: hex format
From: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
To: NZG <ngustavson at emacinc dot com>
Cc: help-octave at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:35:36 -0500

NZG wrote:
> Whats a simple way to see a number in Octave in hex?
> I tried 
> "format hex"
> but this isn't giving me what I want.
> 2 is not 0000000000000040
> by any conversion I've ever seen
>   

I think what you're seeing here is a direct hex output of the internal 
floating point representation of 2, which includes an exponent and mantissa.


> Obviously I can just pull the number out and put in the OS's scientific 
> calculator, but surely there is an Octave function for this, isn't there?
>   

Take a look at the dec2hex function.

-Quentin

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