On 2015-5-11 17:21, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
The "e10" at the end is scientific notation. I don't know where the 'e' came from, but I would guess it stands for "exponent" and I would bet we use 'e' because there was no way to write a superscript when hand-held calculators were invented.
O youth! It was used in Fortran about twenty years before that. (For double precision numbers the E became D, iirc.) -- *\\* Anton Sherwood *\\* www.bendwavy.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
