Mark E. Shoulson wrote:

> e/E does not mean superscripted or "raised to the power of."
> It's for scientific notation, it means "times 10 to the power of..."
> So it is sensible to say 1.43e7 to mean 14300000, not to mean 1.43^7.
> At least, that's how I see it in most computer notation; it may have
> been different in Fortran.

The exponentiation operator in Fortran is ** ; still used in Python.

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