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E+005 number view- change to view entire number

Hi,

I have a list of numbers being output to a panel but they are large so they are viewed as E+... instead of the whole number. Is there a way to change the setting so that when I output the file into a .csv file they are in their actual number format?

example: 2.350600E+005 (scientific notation) would be viewed as 235060.0 instead.

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on October 1, 2009 at 5:23am
Use this formula in an expression component: format("{0}",x)
Connect the point list to the 'x' input and the expression component should return the list of points without scientific notation.
Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Tweedale on October 1, 2009 at 6:55am
Thanks Vicente...

Do you know,
Is there a way to easily remove the '{' and '}' so that the outFile just has #,#,#?
Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on October 1, 2009 at 7:26am
use this formula then: format("{0},{1},{2}",x.x,x.y,x.z)
Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on October 1, 2009 at 9:08am
I've also been wondering about this for some time.

Thank you Vincente for sharing and thank you Elizabeth for asking
Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 1, 2009 at 11:14am
There are a lot of formatting tricks for numbers available through the Format() function.

Standard formatting tags

Custom formatting tags

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Seattle, WA
Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Tweedale on October 7, 2009 at 5:45am
Thanks!
Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on November 10, 2009 at 3:15am
How do you fix the number of decimal places in this sort of formating statement?
Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 10, 2009 at 4:02am
Fixed number of decimals:

Format("{0:0.00000}", x) //exactly 5 decimals...

Format("{0:0.00###}", x) //at least 2 decimals, but we allow for 3 more if they're non-trivial.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia
Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on November 10, 2009 at 4:56am
Arhhhhh, it was the colon I was missing!

Thanks David.
Permalink Reply by Charles Aweida on June 28, 2010 at 5:16pm
very helpful
Permalink Reply by beyondmetal.com on January 13, 2011 at 12:34pm

I am reading point coordinates from an excel file and using the data in GH.  In excel the format of the numbers are not in scientific notation.  When those numbers are represented in GH they are automatically transformed to scientific notation.  Consequently, some of the digits are not shown.  For example, 166466.9352 in excel becomes 1.6647e+5 in GH.  I am concerned that some rounding has taken place and the point will be in the wrong place.  Can anyone shed some light on whether the number actually got rounded when used in GH?  Is there a way to set the number of digits before rounding.  If it got rounded is there a way to ensure the proper number of digits are carried over to GH.

 

Thank you

Stan

Permalink Reply by beyondmetal.com on January 13, 2011 at 12:56pm

I answered my own question.  Undesired rounding is occurring due to the automatic conversion to scientific notation.  

 

I drew a point with the actual coordinates and compared it to the point baked in GH (scientific notation).  The points were not in the same place.  This is a concerning discrepancy.  It seems if you put in the right coordinates, you should get the right point, not a rounded coordinate.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Stan

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