format
switches between different display formats:
------------------------------------------------------------------- Command Result Example ------------------------------------------------------------------- format short 5 digit scaled fixed point 3.1416 format long 15 digit scaled fixed point 3.14159265358979 format short e 5 digit floating-point 3.1416e+00 format long e 16 digit floating-point 3.141592653589793e+00 format hex Hexadecimal 400921fb54442d18 format bank Fixed dollars and cents 3.14 format rat Ratio of small integers 355/113 format + +,-, blank + format compact Suppresses excess line feeds and results in a slightly more compact dis play. Does not affect the numeric format. format loose Reverts to the more open display. Does not affect the numeric format. format Returns to the default for mats,By default, MATLAB displays numbers in a short format with five decimal digits.short
andloose
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format
+
displays +, -, and blank characters for positive, negative, and zero elements. The spy
function uses graphics to display essentially the same information more effectively. format
hex
displays the hexadecimal representation of the binary double-precision number for each element. format
rat
uses a continued fraction algorithm to approximate floating-point values by ratios of small integers. See rat.m
for the complete code in an M-file.
fprintf
, num2str
, rat
, sprintf
, spy
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