B&K Precision 4040B - Manual - Manual (Page 54)

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ON or OFF
or numeric. A numeric value is rounded to an integer. A
non-zero result is interpreted as 1 (ON), and a zero result
as 0 (OFF).
Queries return the values 0 or 1.
iii) NRf
This is a decimal numeric data type, where
NR1 indicates an integer number,
NR2 indicates a fixed point real number, and
NR3 indicates a floating point real number.
iv) Numeric value program data
This data type defines numeric values, as well as special
cases of Character Data. Numeric values may be
specified in any of Integer, Fixed Point or Floating Point
format. All parameters which have associated units accept
a suffix, which may be specified using upper or lower-case
characters. When the suffix is not specified, the numeric
value is accepted in the default units, which are Hertz for
frequency, Seconds for time, and Volts for voltage. To set
the frequency to 1KHz we can send one of the following
commands:
FREQ 1000
FREQ 1E3
The special forms of character data accepted as
numbers are