RE: Output control
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- Subject: [mg32922] RE: [mg32898] Output control
- From: David.Annetts at csiro.au
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 02:30:12 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Gustavo
> I'm trying to control a basic output in Mathematica, but
> with little
> luck. Whenever I get a number smaller than a certain
> threshold (that I don't
> know which is) Mathematica outputs jus a "0.", and not the
> number. Also, it
> would rather write 0.00000654 than 6.54x10^6. Is there a way
> to modify the
> default styles in Mathematica to:
> 1) Actually write a number of the kind 6.5435 x 10^-19
> 2) make it give all results smaller than a certain threshold (say,
> 10^-1) in scientific notation?
It's controlled via ExponentFunction which can be an argument to most of the
NumberForms. It's explained in Section 2.8.7 of the Bible.
Regards,
Dave.
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