In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:33:13 -0400: Hi, [snip] >system background, with an average value of 3.3 X lo9 atoms.
I have watched various attempts at presenting powers of 10 on this list, but this has to be the worst (and yes I am also guilty of having done similar in the past). I realize that this is an OCR error, but I thought I would use the opportunity to make my point anyway. May I strongly suggest to all that the engineering standard by adopted (i.e. 3.3E+9)? The reason is that it is plain ASCII and will survive "translation" across fonts and platforms (and probably OCR as well). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
