Chris pointed out I should just try it and VOILA GTM>S X=10E3 W X 10000 GTM>
I am going to change the D to E. On Sunday 23 January 2005 09:17 pm, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > Nancy, > > I'd keep the two together. I can't see any advantage > to separating the mantissa and abscissa (there, I > remembered the names.... I think :-) > > Kevin > > > --- "Nancy E. Anthracite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > What does M understand and a corollary to that is > > what would you do if you > > wanted to read it into an M database and do all of > > these calculations in M to > > define points on a graph. Wouldn't a separtate field > > be better? > > > > On Sunday 23 January 2005 06:01 pm, Maury Pepper > > > > wrote: > > > Likewise, Excel understands E notation but not D. > > > > > > For more on D format, see the Fortran standard on > > > > format specifications, > > > > www.fortran.com/fortran/F77_std/rjcnf0001-sh-13.html > > > > > See section 13.5.9.2.2 on that web page. > > > My understanding is that the D stands for "double" > > > > as in double precision. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "John Leo Zimmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> > > > Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 11:49 AM > > > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Numbers for > > > > programs stored in Databases > > > > > > DON't split the coefficient from the root. > > > > Open Office Calc expresses the exponent with an > > > > "E" rather than "D". > > > > > > I think that if you replace "D-" with "E-" and > > > > "D " with "E" the file > > > > > > would import to Calc as a > > > > tab delimited table. > > > > > > > > regards, > > > > jlz > > > > > > > > ---------- Original Message ----------- > > > > From: "Nancy E. Anthracite" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > Sent: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:48:13 -0500 > > > > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Numbers for > > > > programs stored in Databases > > http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/1977coefficients2.txt > > > > > > If you click on the word "Coefficients" at the > > > > top of this page, > > > > > > > there is a table with this sort of notation. > > > > > > > > > > I was going to pull it into a spreadsheet and > > > > I thought it might be > > > > > > > easier to separate out the exponent rather > > > > than leave it there to be > > > > > > > parsed out. That way when I exported it > > > > again, I could comma > > > > > > > delimit it rather than "D" delimit it. > > > > > > > > > > I was wondering why it was done that way. Greg > > > > probably has the answer. > > > > > > > On Saturday 22 January 2005 11:34 pm, Greg > > > > Kreis wrote: > > > > > > I am not sure of what you are asking. Are > > > > you referring to this? > > > > > > > > >w .24e-2 > > > > > > > > > > > > .0024 > > > > > > > > > > > > Nancy E. Anthracite wrote: > > > > > > >Is it fairly typical to provide numbers in > > > > a format with a D > > > > > > > > > followed by a power of 10, i.e. > > > > 0.2400000D-02 is really .00240000, > > > > > > > > > for entry into databases to be parsed and > > > > used by programs? If it > > > > > > > > > is, is the D-02 portion usually provided > > > > in the same piece of data > > > > > > > > > or "cell" or whatever you want to call it, > > > > or in a different, > > > > > > > > > perhaps adjoining, cell? > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW > > > > -- Interactive Reporting > > > > > > Tool for open source databases. Create > > > > drag-&-drop reports. Save time > > > > > > by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. 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