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From: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George J. Jefferson)
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Subject: Re: problem with "pe" format
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Date: 7 Jun 90 16:17:34 GMT
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>I'd be curious to know if anyone can think of a sitution where you'd actually
>*want* the magnitude of the output to be changed like that

when writing labels for a plot axis you can 'scale' all of the values
and then indicate the 'scale factor' just once

However, uses like this are so rare that the programer could just as
well do it 'by hand'

George Jefferson    jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu   george@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu