I want to use FortranForm to make 0.0000776146 turn into 7.8e-5 i.e. I want to do the following:
FortranForm[0.0000776146]
output: 7.8e-5
But all i get is:
output: 0.00007761457094412894 (this is the actual numebr, the frst is rounded).
I tried palying around with using both FortranForm and NumberForm but It seems I can’t use both without running into problems.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
I believe FortranForm will only use ‘e’ for exponents outside the range from -5 to 5, however NumberForm is very customizable and could be used instead, for example:
NumberForm[0.00007761457094412894, 2, ExponentFunction -> (# &), NumberFormat -> (Row[{#1, "e", #3}] &)]
(* Out[5]= 7.8e-5 *)
Thanks Llian! that worked great. Follow up question, Is there any reason why after using the code:
NumberForm[0.00007761457094412894, 2, ExponentFunction -> (# &), NumberFormat -> (Row[{#1, "e", #3}] &)]
That I wouldn’t be able to save the mathematica notebook this is used in as a LaTex file?
It looks like the LaTeX conversion is having some difficulty with the Row[] construct, e.g. this does not work
TeXForm[Row[{"test"}]]
As a workaround, I’d try the following
NumberForm[0.00007761457094412894, 2, ExponentFunction -> (# &), NumberFormat -> (#1 ~~ "e" ~~ #3 &)]
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An approach using constructs like NumberForm is certainly a good way to go. In this context it is worth noting that FortranForm is a funciton that was introduced in Version 1 of Mathematica and has not been updated since. So, though it is useful in some contexts, to be more “modern” one has to often write custom code for things like this using the much more versatile functions such as NumberForm and so on.
