I encountered this issue recently when someone came on our forum claiming something was wrong with their analog input signals, whereas these were numbers printed by Pd in scientific notation format. They didn't realise that and thought those were big voltage spikes in the analog signal. To make things worse, the situation quickly escalated and they went to ChatGPT which suggested to clip the input range to get rid of the weird prints https://forum.bela.io/d/5315-noise-on-analog-inputs (...).
On Bela, we deal with analog inputs for sensors, so small values close to zero are pretty common when you put together electric noise and sampling noise. Even if someone can parse them properly, it's pretty awkward to see, so I was coincidentally looking for something very similar to Alexandre's proposal. I concur it would be nice to increase the number of digits that it is allowed to stay in the decimal notation, and/or make it user-settable. Best, Giulio Alexandre Torres Porres wrote on 25/11/2024 11:55:
Hi, I was about to open an issue on github, but thought it was better to start a discussion here instead. Pd uses the default settings for %g to display numbers in comments, message boxes, number boxes and [print] (and some other stuff, but this is what concerns me). The default precision is "6" (as in "%.6g"). I'm sure this probably has been discussed many times, but even for single precision, this is not satisfactory and we can create numbers in Pd that it can understand, but it can't save them. Let's leave that aside for now, the thing is that I think this could really change and improve for pd64, as such a precision really does seem quite restrictive to me in this case. It should be easy to adapt the code and have a different precision for each case, right? I can also think of a preference settings that the user can set himself. What do you think? cheers --- pd-dev@lists.iem.at - the Pd developers' mailinglist https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/pd-dev@lists.iem.at/message/X7ZDUTQONHW57TBNTT6KC3UTC65G775W/
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