Re: Macro language exponential number format?

Posted by Ben.BigHair on Nov 11, 2007; 5:41pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/4-colour-merge-tp3698028p3698044.html

On Nov 11, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Joachim Wesner wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> working with my copy of ImageJ 1.38x i just discover that the macro
> language does not accept statements like
>
> a = 5e-3 ;
>
> or
> a = 5.e-3;
> or
>  a = 5.0e-3;
>
> (a = 0.005 works, however)
>
> Am I totally confused here? Is that a "feature" that only recently  
> crept
> in?
>

Hi,

You could use the pow() function.  For example...

print(5 * pow(10,-3));

results in 0.0050

Cheers,
Ben

Ben Tupper
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