On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 09:28:18PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 15:49:28 -0700 > Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030604 15:44]: > > > convenience, not "standardization". Also, I don't know how far it > > > goes back, but I'm sure that the 1e6 usage of the mega- prefix was > > > in use long before the SI came around ~1 centuries ago. I'd call > > > several decades of the 2^10 usage pretty meager. > > > > Bah, typo. That was supposed to be ~2 centuries ago. > > You missed the big one. What the hell is 1.0e6? Shouldn't that be > 1.0x10^6?
Uh, 1.0e6 is quite a usual variant of scientific notation for 1.0 * 10^6. The "e" stands for "exponent". -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
