Show more digit number in command window

Hi. I wanna see 6 digits numbers in command window for output tesult.

Digits(6)

Why above code does not work? Tnx

Answer 1

[Voss]

https://www.mathworks.com/help/symbolic/digits.html

Answer 2

[Steven Lord]

Are you trying to display a numeric result (in which case you should use the format function to change the format used to display numeric results) or a symbolic result (in which case you could use vpa)?

[armin m]

Numeric result

[Walter Roberson]

Digits() only affects floating point symbolic numbers; it has no affect on double precision or single precision.

There is no method to get exactly 6 digits in the command window. "format short" will give you 5 digits, and "format long g" will give you 15 digits. There is no way to customize the display to 6 digits.

However... if you were to round(TheData, 6) and display it with "format long g" in effect, you would mostly see 6 or fewer digits

format short
A = rand(2,5);
A

A = 2×5

0.0877 0.6087 0.5334 0.8574 0.2875 0.7265 0.7497 0.2620 0.2137 0.0151

round(A,6)

ans = 2×5

0.0877 0.6087 0.5334 0.8574 0.2875 0.7265 0.7497 0.2620 0.2137 0.0151

format long g
A

A = 2×5

0.0877053423480108 0.6087128353141 0.533427760450286 0.857432414107602 0.287492789116849 0.726472632732573 0.749749130180543 0.262043559790102 0.213660341475538 0.0150908977443623

round(A,6)

ans = 2×5

0.087705 0.608713 0.533428 0.857432 0.287493 0.726473 0.749749 0.262044 0.21366 0.015091

[armin m]

Tnx