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Erhan Akan
Erhan Akan

Reputation: 19

Matlab displays binary number in engineering format

In Matlab, I need to convert a decimal number into the binary and the converted binary number into the double number.

for example:

a= 3151;
b=dec2bin(a);
b=str2double(b);

I need the answer b=110001001111 but instead of it, 1.1000e+11 will appear.

I need the lsb of the binary number and the functions below will accept only double numbers not binaries as strings.

How can I fix this issue? Thanks for your support.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 89

Answers (1)

Potaito
Potaito

Reputation: 1190

Usually you need to change matlab formatting with format short, format long etc. if you want to alter the way that numbers are displayed. I think you can use format long g which will work the way you want, though I never used it before. 

format long g;
b

b =

110001001111

Another way to deal with this is to tell matlab to specifically print the variable a certain way, like this:

format short;
sprintf('%i', b)

ans =

110001001111

Upvotes: 1

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