Scientific Notation Problems, will not display properly

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Darnell Gawdin
Darnell Gawdin on 24 May 2020
Commented: Darnell Gawdin on 27 May 2020
I'm trying to get matlab to display number in scientific notation below is the code I'm using
format longE
areaFace = 3.8e+7 displays areaFace = 38000000
Engineering format give me...
format longEng
areaFace = 3.8e+7 displays areaFace = 38.0000000000000e+006
what is going wrong?

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Sai Sri Pathuri
Sai Sri Pathuri on 27 May 2020
You may refer Tips in format function documentation. It states that the Integer-valued and floating-point numbers with a maximum of 9 digits do not display in scientific notation.
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Darnell Gawdin
Darnell Gawdin on 27 May 2020
Thanks, I got a replay from Matlab. That's just weird. Why does it display engineering but not scientific. I've always used scientific since forever and never eng.

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