<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>printingSeparator -- string used to separate mantissa from exponent when printing real numbers</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_printing__Time__Limit.html">next</a> | <a href="_printing__Precision.html">previous</a> | <a href="_printing__Time__Limit.html">forward</a> | <a href="_printing__Precision.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>printingSeparator -- string used to separate mantissa from exponent when printing real numbers</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>printingSeparator = s</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>s</tt>, <span>a <a href="___String.html">string</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Consequences:<ul><li>The string <tt>s</tt> will be used to separate mantissa and exponent when printing real numbers.</li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : 3000000000000. o1 = 3e12 o1 : RR (of precision 53)</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : printingSeparator o2 = e</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : printingSeparator = "E" o3 = E</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i4 : 3000000000000. o4 = 3E12 o4 : RR (of precision 53)</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="single"><h2>See also</h2> <ul><li><span><a href="_printing__Precision.html" title="current precision for printing numbers">printingPrecision</a> -- current precision for printing numbers</span></li> <li><span><a href="_printing__Accuracy.html" title="current accuracy for printing numbers">printingAccuracy</a> -- current accuracy for printing numbers</span></li> <li><span><a href="_printing__Lead__Limit.html" title="maximum number of leading zeroes to use when printing real numbers">printingLeadLimit</a> -- maximum number of leading zeroes to use when printing real numbers</span></li> <li><span><a href="_printing__Trail__Limit.html" title="maximum number of additional trailing digits to use when printing real numbers">printingTrailLimit</a> -- maximum number of additional trailing digits to use when printing real numbers</span></li> <li><span><a href="_format.html" title="format a string or a real number">format</a> -- format a string or a real number</span></li> </ul> </div> <div class="waystouse"><h2>For the programmer</h2> <p>The object <a href="_printing__Separator.html" title="string used to separate mantissa from exponent when printing real numbers">printingSeparator</a> is <span>a <a href="___String.html">string</a></span>.</p> </div> </div> </body> </html>