plot formatting on an HP 82162A printer

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(08-02-2016 04:03 AM)4ster Wrote:  I'm not a great 41 programer, I've looked in my manuals and haven't yet discovered a flag setting or something that keeps the calculator display out of engineering mode for small numbers.

I have never used the printer, so I am not able to tell you how to solve it.

However, when it comes to displaying small numbers in FIX, the calculator will attempt to round the number and keep the FIX mode, failing that it switches to SCI mode. That is probably what you are seeing. Meaning, 0.0001 will not be able to show in FIX 1, so you will see 1.0 -04 instead.

The workaround is to use RND (round), to force the number to be rounded to the display setting. In this case that will change your small number to 0.0. I looked at the source of PRAXIS and it seemed to have a lot of RND going on before ACX (which I guess means accumulate value in X to printer output), so it would seem it is already doing that? Someone else probably know better.