Doug Ewell wrote:
> 4. Where did you see "1012" for ten to the 12th power?
> Who in his right mind would expect that to be legible?

I see it often in material that was composed in some format that had the
equivalent of <sup> </sup> and then copied to plain text.

Dad (who teaches physics) says students are increasingly writing "1e4"
rather than "10<sup>4</sup>" -- a good thing, in my opinion, since the
"10" is the least meaningful part of the symbol but the superscript is
customarily written smaller!

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