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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Ryan Moszynski <ryan.moszynski@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 2 basic calc questions
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 02:41:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h6wckb3z.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKEe=vdcktcvHhoyU5wg1D3U1dbmdxmYXk28YqiNkxaKrHtWpA@mail.gmail.com> (Ryan Moszynski's message of "Fri, 20 Jan 2023 18:06:47 -0500")

Ryan Moszynski <ryan.moszynski@gmail.com> writes:

> 1) how do I get calc to display answers as a decimal with all trailing
> digits until there are repeated zeros?
>
> for example, I would like to display the result of
> .5 * .09^2
> as
> 0.00405

The commands behind the "display" prefix d, e.g. M-5 d n, as explained in

  (info "(calc) Modes Tutorial")

are not what you want?


Michael.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-27  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-20 23:06 2 basic calc questions Ryan Moszynski
2023-01-21 14:07 ` tomas
2023-01-21 19:07 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2023-01-27  1:41 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2023-03-12 11:08 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2023-03-12 23:53   ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-18 17:15     ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2023-03-18 18:34       ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-19 20:43         ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-01-21 17:11 Ryan Moszynski

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