st: Re: Significant figures formats

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 11:19 18/07/03 -0500, Bill Gould wrote (re significant figures formats):

> With Stata 8, try %9.2g, %8.2g, or %<w>.2g:
>
>         . display %9.2g 4.52394e-3
>             .0045
>
>         . display %9.2g 4.52394e-5
>           .000045
>
> Display value x with %<w>.<d>g, with d!=0, does not display significant
> figures, but for |x|<1, it does.
>
> Let me repeat something I wrote on 7apr2003:
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<A lot of very useful info>
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> If there is an interest in the round-and-pad solution, we would be willing to
> implement a %G format to go along with %g.
Thanks to Bill for his very helpful advice, which saved me a bit of 
not-very-interesting programming. The %10.2g format is very useful, but I 
think the proposed "round-and-pad" %10.2G format would be even better.

Best wishes

Roger


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