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citre3241-Visitor
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April 5, 2022
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I am trying to display results always with exponents in scientific notation.

  • April 5, 2022
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I am using Mathcad Prime Release 7.0 and Datecode7.0.0.0

Mathcad Prime 7.0 can show results in scientific notation, but if exponent is zero, the exponent is skipped.
Is it possible to display always the exponent as Mathcad 15 can?

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HS_102064231-Visitor
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April 6, 2022

Check this out may be help you out https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad/Scientific-notation/td-p/190467Flare Account

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citre3241-VisitorAuthor
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April 6, 2022

Thank you for the reply.

This topic was kind of beneficial to me. The most ideal way of displaying is FORTRAN-style exponential.

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StuartBruff23-Emerald V
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April 6, 2022
@citre324 wrote:

I am using Mathcad Prime Release 7.0 and Datecode7.0.0.0

Mathcad Prime 7.0 can show results in scientific notation, but if exponent is zero, the exponent is skipped.
Is it possible to display always the exponent as Mathcad 15 can?

If there is a way, it's not obvious (to me).

 

Indeed, it looks like such a display may be a bug.

 

https://support.ptc.com/help/mathcad/r8.0/en/#page/PTC_Mathcad_Help/to_format_the_result_display.html

 

▪(Scientific)—Results are always in exponential notation.
12461.7556 = 1.246 × 10^4

 Stuart

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citre3241-VisitorAuthor
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April 6, 2022

I can only think so too.

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MichaelW17-Peridot
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May 16, 2022

No, this is obviously working as designed:

Mathcad 15 scientific notation:        1=1E+000   10=1E+001   100=1E+002   1000=1E+003

Mathcad Prime scientific notation: 1=1                  10=1*10          100=1*10²        1000=1*10³

 

One can refer to Product Ideas @ PTC Community and consider posting a new one. 

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MSheykman5-Regular Member
5-Regular Member
May 25, 2022

To the best of my knowledge it was done deliberately just because

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We can consider having and additional result format setting like "show zero exponent" similar to "show trailing zeros" that will affect this behavior.

Meanwhile you can just type 10^0 in scaling expression, but it needs to be done in each individual expression, there is no way to do it on document level.

I am not convinced that current behavior contradicts the documentation because documentation does not explicitly mention the case of zero in exponent. 

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LucMeekes23-Emerald IV
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May 25, 2022

There is no need for the documentation to explicitly mention the case of zero (or one), simply because the documentation states 'Results are always in exponential notation.'

And always leaves no room for exceptions, unless they are explicitly mentioned.

 

Luc

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