On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:35:59 -0500, Ph.D. <phil@...> wrote:

> It was the same in Fortran. 1E4 meant 1 times (10 to the power 4).
> 1.43E7 meant 1.43 times (10 to the power 7) = 14300000.

Thank you for the refresher. It's been decades.

I remember the Fortran format specifications that included "...fwd..." and
"...ewd...". One spoof was that they signified "four-wheel drive" and
"eight-wheel drive".

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Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
Science education in Kansas: The water in
the oceans does not fall off the edges of the
Earth because it is God's will that it not do so.