That is a case of e being overloaded. It helps with the OP's issue though. For the scientific notation issue I would suggest choosing which is more useful, natural e or using e for a base ten exponent.
On Monday, January 5, 2015 12:22:11 PM UTC-6, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Peter Mancini <pe...@cicayda.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Usually a language handles this problem by making the constants such as p >> and e as reserved. Thus you can't create a new variable with those names >> and since they are constant you can't assign to them without raising an >> error. >> > > That doesn't help here since `2e+1` would still mean something different > than `2e + 1`. >
