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RE: Output control

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  • Subject: [mg32919] RE: [mg32898] Output control
  • From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 02:30:03 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Gustavo,

I have no idea why you get 0. for a small number. It would help if you had a
simple example.

This gives the full numbers:

x = 6.54*^-3;
Table[x^(-10i), {i, -3, 3}]

To obtain scientific notation just use ScientificForm

x
0.00654

ScientificForm[x]
6.54 x 10^-3

You might also want to investigate NumberForm and EngineeringForm.

David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gustavo Seabra [mailto:seabra at ksu.edu]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 5:23 AM
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg32919] [mg32898] Output control
>
>
> Hello,
>
>     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?
>
>     Thanks,
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Gustavo Seabra - Graduate Student
> Chemistry Department
> Kansas State University
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>



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