FORMAT FORMAT Control the Format of Matrix Display

Usage

FreeMat supports several modes for displaying matrices (either through the
disp function or simply by entering expressions on the command line.  
There are several options for the format command.  The default mode is equivalent
to

   format short

which generally displays matrices with 4 decimals, and scales matrices if the entries
have magnitudes larger than roughly 1e2 or smaller than 1e-2.   For more 
information you can use 

   format long

which displays roughly 7 decimals for float and complex arrays, and 14 decimals
for double and dcomplex.  You can also use

   format short e

to get exponential format with 4 decimals.  Matrices are not scaled for exponential 
formats.  Similarly, you can use

   format long e

which displays the same decimals as format long, but in exponential format.
You can also use the format command to retrieve the current format:

   s = format

where s is a string describing the current format.