MATLAB Answer format

Why does my answer appear as (as example) 1234567/987654*pi^2? Why will it not appear as a number? If I then copy and paste the answer, and hit enter, I get the number. But why when I type W= do I get the equation? I have tried changing the format to short, shortE, shortG...anything. Thanks.

Answer 1

[Oleg Komarov]

Is W a symbolic variable?

[Josh]

w is. But I am actually typing Wxy for my final answer. It gives me an equation, with no variables.

[Oleg Komarov]

The type sym has a specific way of displaying results.

Just convert to double

double(W)

[Josh]

Perfect! Thanks!