[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #62544] Variable editor fails to display matrix after fixed_point_format(true)

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #62544 (project octave):

It does fix the problem, although I don't think I understand the rest of the
way fixed_point_format is supposed to behave.  According to the
documentation,


The scaled format prints a scaling factor on the first line of
output chosen such that the largest matrix element can be written
with a single leading digit.


It then gives the example


fixed_point_format (true)
logspace (1, 7, 5)'
ans =

  1.0e+07  *

  0.00000
  0.00003
  0.00100
  0.03162
  1.00000


which seems alright.  But,


octave:12> fixed_point_format (true)
octave:13> x = [1e1; 1e3; 1e5; 1e7]
x =

       10
     1000
    1e+05
    1e+07


In this case, why isn't the 1e7 factor extracted and presented at the top as
before?

It seems to require that one of the variables must have at least 8 significant
digits.  For example,


x(3) = 1.234567e5
x =

  1.0e+07 *

   0.0000
   0.0001
   0.0123
   1.0000




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