How to display square root symbol instead of decimal.

The number of display format does not include the square, I can only select decimal, rational..., but not square root. When I input sqrt(5) in a matrix and display it, it is transformed to decimal. Can I keep the square root form?

[KSSV]

Where you want to display it?

[Botlhe]

Command window

[Walter Roberson]

To display at the command line, you would need to be using a matlab version from the last several years, and you would need to fprintf the unicode square root symbol, √ which is U+221A, followed by whatever text. This would prefix the text with the symbol rather than drawing the symbol extending over the text. There is no way to get the symbol extending over the text at the command line.

If you use the symbolic toolbox together with Livescript then it does become possible to display the square root extending over the text... but not at the command line.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

sqrt(sym(5))

ans = 

This requires the Symbolic Toolbox.

Also, display of the square root symbol itself instead of 5^(1/2) requires that you are using Livescript