fix: a readout keeps its metric prefix when the stream declares no unit

The SI prefix ladder in format_measure() was gated on a non-empty unit, so two
decimals of a small unitless value printed `0.00` -- the reading gone, not merely
coarse. That is a whole class of channels rather than a corner: a CONFIG need not
declare a unit, and a math channel never has one. Below 1e-12 the same loss
happened even with a unit, so that range falls back to three significant digits.

With no unit the prefix goes tight against the number (`585.24m`), since the space
exists to separate the number from its unit and a spaced `m` alone reads as metres.

The mock declared `unit="V"` for every data signal, which is why no probe could see
this; it now takes `--unit ''`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -1185,7 +1185,16 @@ Every readout is a **measurement**, not a raw number: at most two decimals, scal
SI prefix so the digits sit in `1..999`, and the unit the stream declared appended —
`10.52 mV`, `-9.8 V`, `dT -398.67 ms`, `1.06 pV`. Two decimals is the resolution the
instruments can claim (a marker lands on a sample, and the sample is an `f32`), and a
trailing zero is dropped, so `1.50 V` reads `1.5 V`. A row's rulers use its signals' unit
trailing zero is dropped, so `1.50 V` reads `1.5 V`. The prefix is applied **whether or not
the stream declared a unit**, and that is not a detail: a signal whose CONFIG declares none is
ordinary, a *math* channel never has one, and two decimals of an unprefixed small value is
`0.00` — the reading was simply gone for an entire class of channels, which went unnoticed
because the mock declares `V` for everything (it now takes `--unit ''`, which is the only way
a probe can see this). With no unit the prefix is written *tight* against the number —
`585.24m`, not `585.24 m` — because the space is there to separate the number from its unit,
and a spaced `m` with nothing after it reads as metres. Below `1e-12`, where no prefix can
help, the value falls back to three significant digits in whatever form fits rather than to
`0.00`. A row's rulers use its signals' unit
when they agree on one and print bare digits when they do not: a ruler is on the row's y
axis, and two units on one axis make "the" unit a guess. A trace's line carries the
signal's **colour chip and its name** — `● sine 616.49 mV -24.57 mV -641.06 mV` — and the