Matrix Error when typed in

Hi my script is this

n=[1.5,3.4;91250,73000]

but it comes out as

n =

1.0e+04 *

0.0001 0.0003

9.1250 7.3000

the 1.0e+04 * automatically comes out of nowhere and disturbs my data all the time. Anyone knows why?

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

This is just a display issue. All values are what you entered (or, at least the closest IEEE double representation). That 1.0e+04 is just a factor that is applied to all of the displayed values. To see a different display of these same numbers you could choose one of the other formats. E.g., type this at the command line:

format longg