Scientific notation



Thank you very much! It worked!

----- Messaggio originale -----
Da: Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
A: piettguard-maxima at yahoo.it; maxima at math.utexas.edu
Inviato: Venerd? 22 giugno 2007, 16:46:34
Oggetto: RE: [Maxima] Scientific notation

Try this

x:3.0363649265562019E+10;
load(stringproc);
printf(false,"~20f",x);

I got
  30363649265.562019


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu 
> [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of 
> piettguard-maxima at yahoo.it
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:27 PM
> To: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> Subject: Scientific notation
> 
> 
> Here is my problem:
> When I ask for a result, if it has lots of decimal digit, 
> maxima print it in Scientific Notation, that is  
> "3.0363649265562019E+10".
> Now, I'd like to see it in floating point notation, I mean 
> something like 30363649265.562019. No matter in changing 
> precision, I need only to change the notation.
> Thank you all.
> 
> Dany
> 
> 
> 
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