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Article #10311Re: how to format -1.23e-4 ?
From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 11:51
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 11:51
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In article <1991Jun17.074816.9332@neon.Stanford.EDU>, golding@neon.Stanford.EDU (Andy Golding) writes:
|>
|> I was wondering what is the preferred way of formatting
|> numbers in exponential notation, e.g.,
|>
|> -1.23e-4
|>
|> I tried the following:
|>
|> (a) -1.23e-4 --> the negative signs are wrong
|> (b) $-1.23e-4$ --> bad spacing; looks like -1.23e minus 4
|> (c) --1.23e--4 --> the dashes and spacing don't look right
|> (d) $-$1.23e$-$4 --> not bad, but cumbersome to type
|>
|> Perhaps my mistake is trying to use exponential notation
|> in the first place... but I don't see how else to print
|> tiny numbers. Any suggestions?
|>
|> Thanks,
|> Andy
What about $-1.23\cdot 10^{-4}$ ?
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Andreas Schwab
schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
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