Re: [sage-support] Decimal Answers

2015-05-11 Thread Anton Sherwood
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!

Re: [sage-support] Decimal Answers

2015-05-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/11/2015 03:40 PM, Selah Bryce wrote: > Thank you. It gave me 9.13877574435632e10. What does that mean? > It means 9.13877574435632 times 10^10, or 91387757443.5632. 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"

Re: [sage-support] Decimal Answers

2015-05-11 Thread Selah Bryce
Thank you. It gave me 9.13877574435632e10. What does that mean? On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 12:26:32 PM UTC-7, kcrisman wrote: > > >> > How do you find the decimal that is equal to 7950734897590/87 >> > >> >> You don't say how many places you want. There are lots of ways if that >> doesn't matte

Re: [sage-support] Decimal Answers

2015-05-11 Thread kcrisman
> > > > How do you find the decimal that is equal to 7950734897590/87 > > > > You don't say how many places you want. There are lots of ways if that > doesn't matter, for example 7950734897590/87.0 > > Or N(7950734897590/87) , assuming you haven't redefined N as N=10 or something during the s

Re: [sage-support] Decimal Answers

2015-05-11 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Selah Bryce wrote: > How do you find the decimal that is equal to 7950734897590/87 > You don't say how many places you want. There are lots of ways if that doesn't matter, for example 7950734897590/87.0 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed

[sage-support] Decimal Answers

2015-05-11 Thread Selah Bryce
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