A Description of the sherpa.output State Object
The state object sherpa.output contains settings that affect the
appearance of floating point numbers printed to standard output.
State object settings can be changed at the command line. When
assigning a string to a state object field, the string should be
quoted:
sherpa> sherpa.output.precision = 6
The user can also create aliases for state objects, in the
following manner:
sherpa> variable so = sherpa.output
sherpa> so.precision = 6
The following table lists each field of sherpa.output, with a description and
the default value:
|
width
|
Maximum number of characters printed out
|
11
|
|
precision
|
Precision (number of digits after decimal point)
|
4
|
|
scientific
|
Show all floating point numbers in scientific notation
(0 = false, 1 = true)
|
0
|
|
showpoint
|
Show all floating point numbers with a decimal point
|
0
|
|
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