number formatting again
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg45031] number formatting again
- From: "mandarino" <pams at wwwsrv1.cepus.net>
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 06:06:31 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I have done some geodetic-GPS calculations recently, and mostly I want to format my calculations with 3 decimal places (mm accuracy), because the integer part of a calculation can be a number with ~1-7 digits it is nowdays difficult to find a formatting procedure that print out all digits to the third decimal (without exponential format). I work with NumberFormat, Scientificformat and EngineeringFormat but they does not seem to work in all cases, (in some cases I get exponential formatting). example: I want to use a simple way to make Mathematica print out the results: Like this: 12.456 m and 129384759.133 m and not like this: 1.29384759133 10^8 in the last case. Is there some better way to handle this formatting problem that somebody can suggest? I used to use N[x,n] (in version 3.1) wich nowdays behaves differently. e.g. N[Pi,30]= 3.14159265358979328464338328 and N[Pi,10]=3.14159 As you can see one have no control over the number of printed decimals. I know it is possible to construct some formatting Module or function, but this is not what I want. Best Peter W