Sorry about that; the function is back to normal now. `round` is also useful for showing specific numbers of digits.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Douglas Bates <dmba...@gmail.com> wrote: > With the addition of _output_limit in base/show.jl ,showcompact(float(pi)) > in the REPL has reverted to showing 3.141592653589793. Until recently it > would display 3.14159 > > I have been using `showcompact` when printing out verbose information on the > iteration progress in optimization algorithms. Any suggestions on how to > display a Float64 to, say, 6 significant digits? >