Printing in ROOT with Info() function - printing

I'm trying to make some print statements in ROOT using Info, as in
Info("execute()","the pt of the jet = %.2f Gev", (*jets_itr)->pt());
and I am trying to find some documentation that will tell me what symbols to use to use for ints, doubles, etc (I think know from another source that .2f is a float, but otherwise I'm just guessing).
Thanks

you can find the full list here:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/printf/

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Why is wxMaxima not integrating the following input, and merely polishing the input as a result instead?

When I input:
integrate((sqrt(x+sqrt(x+1))),x);
It results in:
integrate(sqrt(sqrt(x+1)+x),x)
The result is displayed in a more organized manner. However, it does not give me the integral. Why?
Because it doesn't know how to solve it. You can use changevar to help maxima solve it. For example:
exp: sqrt(sqrt(x+1)+x)$
assume(u>0)$
changevar('integrate(exp,x), sqrt(x+1)-u,u,x)$
ev(%,nouns);
and substitute back for x:
ratsubst(sqrt(x+1),u,%)

Other ways to call/eval dynamic strings in Lua?

I am working with a third party device which has some implementation of Lua, and communicates in BACnet. The documentation is pretty janky, not providing any sort of help for any more advanced programming ideas. It's simply, "This is how you set variables...". So, I am trying to just figure it out, and hoping you all can help.
I need to set a long list of variables to certain values. I have a userdata 'ME', with a bunch of variables named MVXX (e.g. - MV21, MV98, MV56, etc).
(This is all kind of background for BACnet.) Variables in BACnet all have 17 'priorities', i.e., every BACnet variable is actually a sort of list of 17 values, with priority 16 being the default. So, typically, if I were to say ME.MV12 = 23, that would set MV12's priority-16 to the desired value of 23.
However, I need to set priority 17. I can do this in the provided Lua implementation, by saying ME.MV12_PV[17] = 23. I can set any of the priorities I want by indexing that PV. (Corollaries - what is PV? What is the underscore? How do I get to these objects? Or are they just interpreted from Lua to some function in C on the backend?)
All this being said, I need to make that variable name dynamic, so that i can set whichever value I need to set, based on some other code. I have made several attempts.
This tells me the object(MV12_PV[17]) does not exist:
x = 12
ME["MV" .. x .. "_PV[17]"] = 23
But this works fine, setting priority 16 to 23:
x = 12
ME["MV" .. x] = 23
I was trying to attempt some sort of what I think is called an evaluation, or eval. But, this just prints out function followed by some random 8 digit number:
x = 12
test = assert(loadstring("MV" .. x .. "_PV[17] = 23"))
print(test)
Any help? Apologies if I am unclear - tbh, I am so far behind the 8-ball I am pretty much grabbing at straws.
Underscores can be part of Lua identifiers (variable and function names). They are just part of the variable name (like letters are) and aren't a special Lua operator like [ and ] are.
In the expression ME.MV12_PV[17] we have ME being an object with a bunch of fields, ME.MV12_PV being an array stored in the "MV12_PV" field of that object and ME.MV12_PV[17] is the 17th slot in that array.
If you want to access fields dynamically, the thing to know is that accessing a field with dot notation in Lua is equivalent to using bracket notation and passing in the field name as a string:
-- The following are all equivalent:
x.foo
x["foo"]
local fieldname = "foo"
x[fieldname]
So in your case you might want to try doing something like this:
local n = 12
ME["MV"..n.."_PV"][17] = 23
BACnet "Commmandable" Objects (e.g. Binary Output, Analog Output, and o[tionally Binary Value, Analog Value and a handful of others) actually have 16 priorities (1-16). The "17th" you are referring to may be the "Relinquish Default", a value that is used if all 16 priorities are set to NULL or "Relinquished".
Perhaps your system will allow you to write to a BACnet Property called "Relinquish Default".

How to order variables in Maxima?

I want to give variables a specific order in an equation in Maxima. This is display purposes only.
For example:
(%i1) E=(h*c)/%lambda;
c h
(%o1) E = -------
%lambda
I want the h and c variables to be in that order when displayed. I looked at ratvars() and ordergreat() but they don't appear to be relevant here.
Thanks for your help.
It appears that declare(<var>, mainvar) was what I was looking for. When mainvar attribute is declared for a variable it "succeeds all other constants and variables".
I was trying this using the STACK plugin for Moodle. I needed to remove the mainvar keyword from the forbidden list in the file casstring.class.php.
Actually, I think ordergreat() is the function you need, maybe you did a sorting before that needed unorder() first ro reset things.
Try
unorder()$ ordergreat (h, c)$ E=(h*c)/%lambda;
and
unorder()$ ordergreat (c, h)$ E=(h*c)/%lambda;

conversion data with erlang

my question now is :
I have the variavle M which contains : 37.5 (as you see is integer)
I want to convert M in order to be string "37.5"
so 37.5 should became "37.5"
I try with function :
M2=integer_to_list(M)
but when I execute this function it displays this error :
** exception error: bad argument
in function integer_to_list/1
called as integer_to_list(37.5)
integer_to_list wont work in that situation because 37.5 is a float and not an integer. Erlang does have float_to_list, but the output is usually pretty unusable.
Instead, I would recommend looking into mochiweb project for pretty conversion of floats to lists. In particular, the mochinum module:
> M = 37.5,
> mochinum:digits(M).
"37.5"
#chops has a great answer, IMO (using mochinum:digits/1), but you might also get something out of looking at the io_lib module. For example:
8> io_lib:format("~.2f",[37.5]).
["37.50"]
9> io_lib:format("~.1f",[37.5]).
["37.5"]
I realize this might not be exactly what you are looking for, and in this case I think looking at/using the mochinum module is an efficient way to go, but io_lib is often overlooked and provides a really useful set of functions for formatting lists / strings

Custom Array Functions in Open Office Calc

Could someone please tell me how to write a custom function in Open Office Basic to be used in Open Office Calc and that returns an array of values. An example of one such built-in function is MINVERSE. I need to write a custom function that populates a range of cells in much the same way.
Help would be much appreciated.
Yay, I just figured it out: all you do is return an array from your macro, BUT you also have to press Ctrl+Shift+Enter when typing in the cell formula to call your function (which is also the case when working with other arrays in calc). Here's an example:
Function MakeArray
Dim ret(2,2)
ret(0,0) = 1
ret(1,0) = 2
ret(0,1) = 3
ret(1,1) = 4
MakeArray = ret
End Function
FWIW, damjan's MakeArray function returns a Variant containing an array, I think. (The type returned by MakeArray is unspecified, so it defaults to Variant. A Variant is a container with a descriptive header, apparently cast as needed by the interpreter.)
Almost, but not quite, the same thing as returning an array. According to http://www.cpearson.com/excel/passingandreturningarrays.htm, Microsoft did not introduce the ability to return an array until 2000. His example [ LoadNumbers(Low As Long, High As Long) As Long()] does not compile in OO, flagging a syntax error on the parens following Long. It appears that OO's Basic emulates the pre-2k VBA.

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