MATLAB: Convert milliseconds (ms) to seconds (s)

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Hello,
we have an array with stimuli onset times in milliseconds, 
ms = [1600901     1970185     2340488     2710467     3080481     3449869]
and we want to convert those values to seconds with a specific format, that would be, 1600901/1000 = 1600.901.
But when I do that in MATLAB I get this result: 
s = ms/1000
s = 
   1.0e+03 *
    1.6009    1.9702    2.3405    2.7105    3.0805    3.4499
Is there a way to obtain this insead:
s = [1600.901     1970.185     2340.488     2710.467     3080.481     3449.869]
Thank you

Best Answer

You can change the format of how numbers are displayed, e.g. "shortG"
>> format shortG
>> ms/1000
ans =
       1600.9       1970.2       2340.5       2710.5       3080.5       3449.9
Or "longG":
>> format longG
>> ms/1000
ans =
                  1600.901                  1970.185                  2340.488                  2710.467                  3080.481                  3449.869
The default is "short":
>> format short
>> ms/1000
ans =
   1.0e+03 *
    1.6009    1.9702    2.3405    2.7105    3.0805    3.4499
Note that none of these make any difference to the numeric values stored in your array. Do not confuse how numbers are displayed with what values are stored in a variable. These are two quite different things.
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