On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 00:12, Marco wrote:
> On 2011-12-07 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> > \unit{3.4e-5} yields to 3.4⁻⁵ that's expected
>> > according to the manual.
>>
>> But the behaviour is wrong.
>
> I don't know if it's wrong.
But 5e3 would render 5^3 which is hopefully still 125.
> It's very non-intuitive, but I
> think Hans had a reason not to include the \cdot 10.
\cdot 10^{x} is pretty long and might be ugly. But writing out
exponent without the base is everything but the right approach. Even
writing out 5e3 is better than that.
Mojca
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