about fprintf.

hello, i would like to know how to display my final answer with sq. units. for example my area=4/3. i would like to know how to use fprintf so my final answer would become 4/3 sq. units. thank you!

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Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang on 13 Sep 2011
Are you asking to display a=4/3 as ratio of 4/3 instead of a=1.333, or are you asking to display whatever the square units? Do you want to display at command window, or to a file?
Jan
Jan on 13 Sep 2011
What exactly are "sq. units"?

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Jan
Jan on 13 Sep 2011
Perhaps you wnat something like this:
x = 1.333333333333;
[a, b] = rat(x);
fprintf('%d/%d m^2\n', a, b)

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Ejay Kasai
Ejay Kasai on 14 Sep 2011
but how do display it in decimal places?
Jan
Jan on 14 Sep 2011
fprintf('%f m^2\n', x)

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