reading scientific notation in 3.7
she...@owl.nmt.edu
when reading in numbers of the form 1.11E2 my old version 3.5 handles them
well. Converting the data to standard decimal fixed up the screwiness
though.
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crawford richard
> plots of data files are coming out slightly funny in gnuplot3.7 (patch 0),
> when reading in numbers of the form 1.11E2 my old version 3.5 handles them
> well. Converting the data to standard decimal fixed up the screwiness
> though.
The suspense builds ... could you please expand a bit on "slightly funny"?
What do you expect (i.e., get with decimal data) and what do you actually
get (i.e., with exponential data)?
Dick Crawford, aka rccra...@lanl.gov
joseph willis lahdenpera sheedy
Sorry for the feeble vagueness in my last post. The real problem seems
to
arise when reading in numbers such as 1.11E-2. gnuplot 3.7 is ignoring
the exponential, but only when there is a sign in front of the exponent,
and when using 'E' notation (e.g. 1.11E2 plots as 111, but 1.11E+2 is read
as 1.11, and likewise for 1.11E-2). It seems to work fine when using
'd' or 'e' for the exponent signifier. for example:
file.dat
1 1.1E-1
2 2.2E-1
3 3.3E-1
4 4.4E-1
gnuplot3.5 reads this correctly, but 3.7p0 reads the second column as
1.1 , 2.2 , 3.3 , 4.4.
the result of "set term table ; plot 'file.dat' " is:
#Curve 0, 4 points
#x y type
1 1.1 i
2 2.2 i
3 3.3 i
4 4.4 i
is the 'E' notation being phased out? Seems strange since it reads
correctly without the sign in the exponent.
joseph sheedy
http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Sheedy