Scientific notation
A good writeup on scientific notation is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation
((NOTE: we really ought to decide on whether we're going to use the "1E9" or the "1x10^9" or a typeset notation as our Wiki standard>>
A good writeup on scientific notation is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation
((NOTE: we really ought to decide on whether we're going to use the "1E9" or the "1x10^9" or a typeset notation as our Wiki standard>>