On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:26:09 -0500, Doug Ewell <dewell@...> wrote:

> Nope, he meant "1e4", pronounced "one times ten to the fourth" and equal
> to 10,000.

> "10e4" would be pronounced "ten times ten to the fourth" and would be
> equal to "ten to the fifth," or 100,000.

Thank you! This, I'd say, is on-topic, because it concerns how specific
concepts are written. For now, I'll forgo further comment about math.
notation in general.

Regards,

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2.
(Yes, a spoof.)