having trouble with number displays in matrix

I am having a problem with the way numbers are being displayed in a matrix from a while loop. I am trying to calculate basic interest increases in a bank account for a number of years and at the 4th year the values change to some sort of scientific notation. I have tried set the format to compact as this is what I understand to be the default format for matlab to be. I have attached my code and here is a snip of my output. What can I do to fix this?

2 1210

3 1331

1.0e+03 *

0.0040 1.4641

1.0e+03 *

0.0050 1.6105

a=1000;
r=0.1;
bal=a;
year=0;
disp('Year Balance')
while bal<a*2
    bal=bal+r*bal;
    year=year +1;
    disp([year bal])
end

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

format compact only affects the line spacing of the display. It doesn't affect how numbers are displayed.

I tend to use format longg or format shortg. Both should get rid of the scientific notation.

See documentation of format

[Gregory Power]

Thank you. I guess I was a mistaken. and thank you for directing me to the documentation and answering the question.

Answer 2

[Himanshu Rai]

Since you are having trouble displaying year as integers, you can try this

a=1000;
r=0.1;
bal=a;
year=0;
disp('Year Balance')
while bal<a*2
    bal=bal+r*bal;
    year=year +1;
    disp([int32(year) bal])
end

Answer 3

[vidhathri bhat]

Hi

Try using

format long g

This will suppress scientific notation.