Converting from Exponential Form

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Mon Jan 12 13:18:12 EST 2009


Thierry-

Monday, January 12, 2009, 8:47:02 AM, you wrote:

>   put "1.0139648E+9" into  x
>   put x * 1

> Does it works ?

Ah. Now I see what Dave's trying to do. That's actually
*de*normalizing the scientific notation, and Thierry's one-liner does
indeed do the trick (within the acceptable margin of error anyway).

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net




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