On 04/03/2014 06:02 AM, andy pugh wrote: > This thread raised an interesting question > http://linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/49-basic-configuration/27669-following-error-and-velocity/45528 > > The user was seeing the f-error switch to exponential notation, not > seeing the e in the middle, and assuming e-error spikes. > > As the hal-status watch tab displays to many places of decimals, I > wonder if 1e-6 should actually display as 0.00000 instead? > > I can't decide. > Maybe a smart scheme, that short periods of very small numbers show as decimal fraction, and only after some number of refreshes where the value is consistently very small does it switch to scientific. Of course, that will still rile some people in certain cases. But, forcing it to ALWAYS show as decimal fractions is bad, as sometimes you need to view really small values. This is for Halmeter? Maybe the best would be buttons to select display format.
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