how to stop exponential notation, both in output and in variable editor

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tombola 2011-12-7

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Hi is there any way, preferably from code, to stop exponential notation.

So any figures I display, or look at in the variable editor, are always in the format 0.0000000234 etc never 2.34e-8

Thanks for any help,

Tom

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Walter Roberson 2018-6-6

No; if you have a need like that you should probably fprintf() the data

Walter Roberson 2019-12-17

Brando:

You could write a disp_no_scientific function that queried the existing format setting, and activated g format, and then returned to the previous format. However, as noted by Titus, format g does use scientific notation for sufficiently large or small values. There is no format setting for fixed point. If you need that then you should be using fprintf() or perhaps num2str() with an appropriate % format.

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Walter Roberson 2011-12-7

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For variables that you disp(), command

format long

or

format long g

For the variable editor, see these instructions: http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/check-variable-scope-in-editor.html

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Sam H 2018-3-14

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yes, you can use 'fprintf'

a=0.0001234;
fprintf('%.7f\n',a)

Walter Roberson 2019-12-17

Brando:

You could write a disp_no_scientific function that queried the existing format setting, and activated g format, and then returned to the previous format. However, as noted by Titus, format g does use scientific notation for sufficiently large or small values. There is no format setting for fixed point. If you need that then you should be using fprintf() or perhaps num2str() with an appropriate % format.

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Titus Edelhofer 2011-12-7

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Hi Tom,

as far as I know there is no way to force MATLAB to always use fixed notion. For generating output you can use fprintf with %f to use fixed notion.

Titus

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Frank 2023-4-20

You just saved me from ripping my hair out.

Lars Abrahamsson 2023-10-24

This answer is the most useful I think.

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Deepan J 2018-9-27

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format long g

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Bharat Motilal 2020-12-10

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SOREL 2018-6-6

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编辑：Walter Roberson 2018-6-6

Hi with the live editor I got a resul printed like this

A = 1.6050541506550198034773572941784e-40*d2

since 1.6e-40 is 0 is it possible to force the the A variable to be 0

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There are three ways to do that:

use feval(symengine) or evalin(symengine) to invoke some MuPAD code to do the replacement for you; or
if you know the structure of the expression, use children() to break it up into pieces, make whatever changes you want to the pieces, then put the pieces back together again. Unfortunately when you operate at the MATLAB level for this, you must already know what the appropriate operation is between the parts: there is no way to use children() or related functions to extract the name of the current operation so that you can put the expression back together again
use children() to break up the expression into pieces and make a list of the values that you plan to replace. Once you have done that, use subs() on the expression to replace the numeric value with your new value

Example:

>> A = sym('1.6050541506550198034773572941784e-40'*d2)
A =
1.6050541506550198034773572941784e-40*d2
>> chA = children(A)
chA =
[ d2, 1.6050541506550198034773572941784e-40]
>> subs(A, chA(2), 12)
ans =
12*d2

here I replaced the numeric value with 12 to illustrate that it you can make arbitrary replacements.

Walter Roberson 2019-12-17

Note: there are additional new and quite obscure possibilities since R2019a. They are difficult to locate; if you do not already know they exist you are unlikely to find reference to them, and even if you know the exist you need a fair bit of experience with symbolic toolbox programming to make use of them :(

Steven Lord 2023-10-24

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FYI if you're doing numerical calculations involving trigonometric functions multiples of pi and want to avoid the round-off error caused by the pi function not returning the exact transcendental value of π, use the sinpi or cospi functions instead.

y = cos(pi/2)
y = 6.1232e-17
z = cospi(1/2)
z = 0

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