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File scalevals.pro

Last modification date:

Wed Nov 17 16:47:51 2004

Scale a value and determine the appropriate prefix for the scaled result. This could be more general, but it is only intended to work out scaling for Giga, Mega, and kilo (G,M,k). If thevalues is a vector, only the first value is examined and all values are scaled by the same factor.

Version

$Id: scalevals.pro,v 1.2 2004/11/17 21:47:51 bgarwood Exp $

Parameters
thevalues in, required float	The values to be scaled.
scaledvalues out, required float	The scaled values.
prefix out, required string	One of "G", "M" or "k" for scalings by 1e9, 1e6, or 1e3 respectively.