Engineering Number Format

[Joe Horn]

(09-02-2014 12:31 PM)Angus Wrote:  I just noticed that when switching to eng-format the post comma digits are filled with '0'. say 1200 is displayed as 1.200000E3, where I would consider 1.2E3 much much more readable.
Is there a way to disable the current behaviour in the current firmware or should I add that topic to the poll-list? My intuition tells me, very few peoples are likely to share my opinion...

It's the same in SCI mode. No, there's no way to tell Prime to display 1200 as 1.2E3 in SCI 6 or ENG 6 modes. The only modes that force automatic hiding of trailing zeros are Standard and Floating, and Rounded when it doesn't flip into SCI mode.

Thoughts (which you already know but which bear repeating for οἱ πολλοί]): Unlike the other display modes, SCI and ENG modes are intended to show a given number of significant digits, and trailing zeros are significant digits (IF obtained from calculations based on that many significant digits, of course). Also, if trailing zeros were suppressed, the user would not know how many significant digits the result has: "Does this result have significant trailing zeros, or did I set this many digits in the display setting?" In other words, those zeros CAN mean something, so hiding them would be a Bad Thing.