changeset 10776:062304bd692e

Update NEWS with description of new engineering format for numbers.
author Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
date Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:11:32 -0700
parents 6892c5562950
children f2a8f68d9c2b
files ChangeLog NEWS
diffstat 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
line wrap: on
line diff
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-07-08  Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
+
+	* NEWS: Update with addition of engineering format.
+
 2010-07-08  Jaroslav Hajek  <highegg@gmail.com>
 
 	* NEWS: Update.
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -305,6 +305,12 @@
      Additionally, the octave_scalar_map class now provides a simpler interface
      to work with scalar structs within a C++ DLD function.
 
+  ** Two new formats are available for displaying numbers:
+     format short eng
+     format long eng
+     Both display numbers in engineering notation, i.e., mantissa + exponent
+     where the exponent is a multiple of 3.
+
 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.2:
 ---------------------------------------------------------