<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 02:42, Elias Goldmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:goldmann@itp.uni-bremen.de">goldmann@itp.uni-bremen.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I write a few real eigenvalues to a file using PetscRealView. Do you really think going binary is better here? Why would that be the case?</blockquote></div><br><div>This is entirely reasonable unless your results are very nearly as accurate as machine precision, in which case using text may lose a couple low bits in a platform-dependent way.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe it would be worth adding something like:</div><div><br></div><div>PetscViewerASCIIPushRealFormat(viewer,"% 20.12e");</div>