Function Reference
— Built-in Function: val = fixed_point_format ()
— Built-in Function: old_val = fixed_point_format (new_val)

Query or set the internal variable that controls whether Octave will use a scaled format to print matrix values such that the largest element may be written with a single leading digit with the scaling factor is printed on the first line of output. For example,

          octave:1> logspace (1, 7, 5)'
          ans =
          
           1.0e+07  *
          
           0.00000
           0.00003
           0.00100
           0.03162
           1.00000

Notice that first value appears to be zero when it is actually 1. For this reason, you should be careful when setting fixed_point_format to a nonzero value.