The issue is not with trailing zeros. The last ~7 digits are incorrect (in comparison to a write(*,*) from my serial code). I’m going to track down the issue today and will report back — I’m guessing the problem is somewhere in my code.
Sent from my iPhone > On May 15, 2019, at 7:25 AM, Mark Adams <mfad...@lbl.gov> wrote: > > This thread suggests that I was at least not wrong in assuming that trailing > 0s should be printed by printf (although I did not trace the code down to > printf) > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/277772/avoid-trailing-zeroes-in-printf > > Maybe Sanjay's machines printf cuts off trailing 0s. > >> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:06 AM Smith, Barry F. <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >> >> The 10-20% in seven digits are presumably printed accurately; it is >> presumably simply the case that the rest of the digits would be zero and >> hence are not printed. >> >> > On May 15, 2019, at 8:59 AM, Mark Adams via petsc-users >> > <petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >> > >> > You are seeing half precision (like 7 digits) in 10-20% of the entries and >> > full in the rest. >> > >> > Someone will probably chime in who knows about this but I can see where a >> > serial matrix is printed in ASCII Matlab in MatView_SeqAIJ_ASCII in >> > src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aij.c. >> > >> > I think this line is operative and is should clearly work: >> > >> > ierr = PetscViewerASCIIPrintf(viewer,"%D %D >> > %18.16e\n",i+1,a->j[j]+1,(double)a->a[j]);CHKERRQ(ierr); >> > >> > Could you run in serial (this code could very well be used for MPI Mats >> > also) with Matlab/ASCII to verify that you have this problem. And you >> > could modify this print statement and remake PETSc, if that's easy, to >> > verify that this code is operative. >> > >> > I think %18.16e should print 16 digits even if they are 0s ... >> > >> > >> > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 8:34 PM Sanjay Govindjee <s...@berkeley.edu> wrote: >> > I'm seeing half precision on at least 10 to 20% of the entries :( >> > Knowing I should see full precision, I will dig deeper. >> > >> > -sanjay >> > On 5/14/19 5:22 PM, Mark Adams wrote: >> >> I would hope you get full precision. How many digits are you seeing? >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 7:15 PM Sanjay Govindjee via petsc-users >> >> <petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >> >> I am using the following bit of code to debug a matrix. What is the >> >> expected precision of the numbers that I will find in my ASCII file? >> >> As far as I can tell it is not the full double precision that I was >> >> expecting. >> >> >> >> call PetscViewerASCIIOpen(PETSC_COMM_WORLD, >> >> tangview,K_view, ierr) >> >> call PetscViewerSetFormat(K_view, >> >> PETSC_VIEWER_ASCII_MATLAB, ierr) >> >> call MatView (Kmat, K_view, ierr) >> >> >> >> -sanjay >> >> >> > >>