Writing an exponential equation in the title

I would like to write my exponential equation in the title of my figure. Right now I have:

     title(['y = ',num2str(a),' x^', (num2str(n))]);

The problem is my equation comes out as: y = 8.56 x^(0).68, which is not what I want.

I want would the title to be y = 8.56 x^(0.68). How do I do this?

[Abdoulaye]

str=num2str(n);
temp=[1:length(str) 0.5:(length(str)-0.5)];
str=[str repmat('^',1,length(str))];
[~,temp]=sort(temp);
str=str(temp);
if true title(['y = ',num2str(a),' x', str]); end

Answer 1

[John BG]

Akhil

you mean this

a=8.56;n=0.68; figure;   title(['y = ' num2str(a) ' x^{' num2str(n) '}' ]);

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Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

     title( sprintf('y = %.2f x^{%.2f}', a, n) );

Answer 3

[Rik]

This syntax is essentially calling TeX, so it follows that syntax. It doesn't, however support accolades for grouping commands, so you'll have to repeat the ^ sign.

I suspect there is faster, more stable and more elegant way to do it, but this should work:

str=num2str(n);
temp=[1:length(str) 0.5:(length(str)-0.5)];
str=[str repmat('^',1,length(str))];
[~,temp]=sort(temp);
str=str(temp);
if true title(['y = ',num2str(a),' x', str]); end

[Walter Roberson]

I do not think I have ever seen "accolades" used in that context??

TeX uses {} to group; the approach I posted in my Answer works fine.

[Rik]

'Accolade' is the Dutch word for the curly bracket, so that's why I used that word (thinking the English word would also cover this meaning).

Some time ago I have tried to get subscript and superscript in my xlabel and ylabel, but there the {} didn't seem to work, so I assumed that it would work in the title either.