newRPL: Number formatting on screen

[Didier Lachieze]

(07-09-2015 09:14 PM)Nigel (UK) Wrote:  I personally like being able to limit the number of significant figures displayed without forcing use of scientific notation. So, for example:

pi is shown as 3.142;
100 000 * pi is shown as 314 200.

I find this behaviour misleading: it's one thing to limit the number of digit displayed (what you don't see, you don't know what it is) and it's another thing to display '0' instead of a valid digit: when you see 314200 on the display, the value of the two '0' digits may or may not be the value inside the machine. And nothing tells you which digits are real and which ones are not.