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April 10, 2013
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Parentheses in Results

  • April 10, 2013
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I apologize for what is probably a simple question.

I am using Mathcad prime and in some of my caclulation results I am getting parenteses around the answer such as (1.113). I am sure there is a simple explanation for this but I cannot seem to find it in the help

Thanks

Mike

Best answer by ValeryOchkov

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
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April 10, 2013

Its always better to attach a worksheet to clarify what the question is.

Its nearly impossible to guess what your problem might be - best guess is that your result is not a scalar but a 1x1 matrix.

This is, among many other possibilities, the case if you use one of the "lookup" functions which will always return a vector.

But without anything to look at its hard to tell.

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ptc-46926961-VisitorAuthor
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April 10, 2013

Sorry Werner,

I have attached the work sheet. I have also highlighted the areas of concern I have with red text

Thanks

Mike

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
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April 10, 2013

I wasn't aware of this as I usually use Mathcad and not Prime.

It seems to be a setting PTC had chosen for Prime differently to Mathcad to clarify what number a unit belongs to. It shows up when the number is formatted using scientific (or engineering) format with a powers of ten in combination with a unit. Its a setting which you cannot change, I guess. Without the parenthesis you could believe that 10^7 has the unit W and 1.113 is unitless - most people won't care, I suppose.

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