Re: silly question on formatting tables
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- Subject: [mg129099] Re: silly question on formatting tables
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:49:18 -0500 (EST)
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On 12/14/12 at 3:01 AM, alba.maydeu at gmail.com wrote:
>Consider the matrix
>{{0, 0, 1.19092}, {0.883038, 0, 0.366804}, {0, 0, 0}}
>How can I display it in matrixform/tableform so that the integers
>are displayed as integers and the reals are displayed only with 2
>decimals?
>If I use MatrixForm, the reals are displayed with 6 decimals, and if
>I use TableForm all numbers, including integers are displayed with 2
>decimals.
Here are two ways to achieve what you want. First:
In[1]:= m = {{0, 0, 1.19092}, {0.883038, 0, 0.366804}, {0, 0, 0}};
m /. a_Real :> NumberForm[a, {3, 2}] // MatrixForm
But notice
In[3]:= Union@Flatten@Map[Head, %, {2}]
Out[3]= {Integer,NumberForm}
That is, NumberForm is a wrapper for the reals which means you
cannot simply use the end result in further computation. So,
({{0, 0, 1.19092}, {0.883038, 0, 0.366804}, {0, 0, 0}} /.
a_Real :> NumberForm[a, {3, 2}]) + {{0, 0, 1}, {1, 0, 2},
{0, 0,
0}}
likely has an output you wouldn't want. You can "fix" this by doing:
{{0, 0, 1.19092}, {0.883038, 0, 0.366804}, {0, 0, 0}} /.
a_Real :> Round[a, .01]
But this changes the values of the real elements which may not
be something you want. Of course by assigning the matrix to a
variable then applying NumberForm etc. you can control the
display and still have the matrix unchanged for further computation.