[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #30163] Feature Request: Engineering format for display

[David Bateman]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #30163 (project octave):


The fact is I don't have access to matlab, so I have no idea how matlab
really implements. The only example in the matlab manual is for the display of
Pi, which isn't really one of those corner cases that would help figure out
how they implemented this feature. So I just used the layout that most pleased
me

The disadvantage with the way I implemented "format long eng" is that up to
two of the least significant digits are pure fiction, as they are below the
machine precision, but I prefer that to a ragged layout, or to not displaying
up to 2 digits that are significant ;-)

D.


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