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Re: format short output with small numbers (bug #56936)
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John W. Eaton |
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Re: format short output with small numbers (bug #56936) |
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Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:29:14 -0500 |
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On 9/24/19 1:22 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
I realize I may have missed the point of your question. If the behavior
changed, then I don't know that it was intentional. Is the situation
now that there is no point where the switch happens?
There is definitely something strange going on. It seems to be
dependent on whether an exact zero is present in the array:
octave:7> pi* [1e7;0;1e-7]
ans =
31415926.53590
0
0.00000
octave:8> pi* [1e7;1e-7]
ans =
3.1416e+07
3.1416e-07
Maybe that's due to the use of logarithms to calculate magnitude ranges?
jwe