Format results

How a result is shown never changes the calculation: a result shown as 1235 still carries 1234.567 into everything below it.

One region

Double-click a result (or Format → Result… while editing a statement). The dialog sets:

• Rounding: decimal places or significant figures, how many, and, with decimals, whether to keep trailing zeros;
• Exponent from 10^n: the size from which numbers are shown with an exponent;
• Unit: the unit the result is shown in. Leave it blank for an automatic SI unit.

The rounding applies to every statement in that region; the unit only to the statement you clicked. Sheet’s format takes the region back to the sheet’s rounding.

The whole sheet

The sheet’s defaults are settings at the top of the file:

---
result:
  significant: 3
---

With that setting:

a := 1234.567
a = 1235
b := 2.5 = 2.50
c := 0.0123456 = 0.0123
F := 54000 N = 54.0 kN

Decimal places or significant figures

• Decimal places are the default, 3 of them: 1234.567, 2.5, 0.333. Trailing zeros are dropped unless you ask for them.
• Significant figures keep trailing zeros, since they are significant: 2.50. Digits left of the decimal point are never rounded away, so 1234.567 to 3 figures is 1235. Tick strict (strict: true) to round them too: 1230.

Exponents

Numbers of a million or more, or smaller than a millionth, are shown with an exponent: 1.23 × 10⁶. Change the threshold with exponential_threshold (3 shows 1234.567 as 1.235 × 10³). A small number that would round to 0 gets an exponent instead.

Units and prefixes

With no unit asked for, the result is in SI, with an engineering prefix that keeps the number between 1 and 1000: 54 kN*m, 210 GPa, 12 mm. To see plain SI units instead, set result: {prefixes: false} for the sheet, or prefixes=false on one region. A moment is shown in N*m, never as an energy in J; type J in the placeholder when you mean energy.

Type any unit of the right kind in the result’s placeholder to show it in that unit.