Mark E. Shoulson skribis:

>
> Nicholas Bodley wrote:
>
> > Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Dad (who teaches physics) says students are increasingly
> > > writing "1e4" rather than "10⁴" . . .
> >
> >(You must have meant "10e4", btw.)
>
> No. 1e4. 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.

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.

--Ph. D.