how to shift decimals ? !!

I want this value(3.023155942378474e+42) in title of plot but i want to reduece the length of these charachters i.e. 3.023e+42 !!

let mw know if you happen to know !

thanks

Answer 1

[DGM]

It all depends on the number format you specify:

mynumber = 3.023155942378474e+42;
title(sprintf('My Number is %.4e',mynumber))

See:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fprintf.html#btf8xsy-1_sep_shared-formatSpec