MATLAB Answer format

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Josh
Josh on 20 Mar 2012
Why does my answer appear as (as example) 1234567/987654*pi^2? Why will it not appear as a number? If I then copy and paste the answer, and hit enter, I get the number. But why when I type W= do I get the equation? I have tried changing the format to short, shortE, shortG...anything. Thanks.

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Oleg Komarov
Oleg Komarov on 20 Mar 2012
Is W a symbolic variable?
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Oleg Komarov
Oleg Komarov on 20 Mar 2012
The type sym has a specific way of displaying results.
Just convert to double
double(W)
Josh
Josh on 20 Mar 2012
Perfect! Thanks!

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