Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:46:49 -0500, Mark E. Shoulson <mark@...> wrote:
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> > 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.
>
> I see your point. I'm really rusty, though! Thank you. A longer form I'm
> pretty sure I've seen is "1.43 x 10^7", which should be the same value as
> your example.

That's what was called "Scientific Notation" when I was in college using
a log-log slide rule. It was most convenient for that application.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...