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What is 3e+37
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From
24/12/2006 00:07:45
Suhas Hegde
Dental Surgeon
Sirsi, India
 
 
To
23/12/2006 07:14:40
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01179906
Message ID:
01179980
Views:
11
>>>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).


Thanx
I am not into engineering profession so that why i had confusion

suhashegde
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