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What is 3e+37
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23/12/2006 07:14:40
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivie
 
 
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23/12/2006 00:59:01
Suhas Hegde
Dental Surgeon
Sirsi, Inde
Information générale
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Catégorie:
Codage, syntaxe et commandes
Titre:
Divers
Thread ID:
01179906
Message ID:
01179922
Vues:
10
>>It's 3 * 10^37
>>See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation
>>
>>>can some 1 point out what is
>>>3e+37 ?
>>> can some 1 elaborate ?
>>>
>>>
>>>Like 3 * ???
>>>
>>>suhashegde
>
>
>thanx
>
>So it is
>
>3*(10*10*10 .... 37 times)
>
>I thought 3*3*3... 37 times
>
>thanx
>
>suhashegde

Indeed, it is a shortcut for scientific notation. The Wikipedia talks about "Engineering notation".

In case you are not familiar with scientific notation, you can also have negative exponents, for example:

5 * 10 ^ -6 (shortcut or "engineering" notation: 5e-6), meaning 0.000005.

10^-6 is defined as 1 / 10^6.

Scientific notation (or the shortcut engineering notation) is often used to express very large numbers, or very small numbers (close to zero).
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