The comparison of evaluate would work but since I need to convert all numbers to since I have to either convert all numbers to strings I am not sure it is shorter than what I am doing now.

>>I need to compare values some of which are in scientific notation (for example available disk space on two drives). The best I could come up with is to
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>>1. use the transform function to be sure all values are in scientific notation
>>2. get the value of the exponents
>>3. get the value of the mantissa
>>4. compare the exponents and if needed the value of the mantissa
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>>Is there a better way?
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>>TIA
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>Can't you compare them directly? For example:
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>? 500 < 2e6
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>If the values are stored as texts, you can use val() to convert the individual values to numbers, or alternatively eval(), for example:
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>? eval("5e6") < eval("2e7")
>* or even
>? eval("5e6 < 2e7")
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