El 03/11/2012 19:25, jan iversen escribió:
When it is in the part that is being translated localizers will take care
of "," versus ".".
I know the "x10" is a scientific notation and I use it and like it, but
since our calc does not accept it, I would prefer the E notation, so people
does not get confused.
But it is not to use it in calc but an explanation in the help so, i
think, 1.79769313486232 x 10^308 is more readable for the normal people.
Jan.
On 3 November 2012 19:14, RGB ES <rgb.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
2012/11/3 jan iversen <jancasacon...@gmail.com>
May I politely as a mathematician point out that there is a major
difference in the 2 proposals.
Number 1 is a mathematical expression whereas number 2 is a number.
I'm physicist :)
The first number is the traditional scientific notation (specially if
proper super indexes are used) while the second one is the "E notation"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#E_notation
Now I do not know where it is used,
One example
https://translate.apache.org/es/OOo_34_help/translate.html?unit=6097629
Regards
Ricardo
but if I copy both suggestions into
Calc, it believes it is text.
Should we not have a format that our own calc accept as a number ??
I agree with andrea that number 2 is more readable (and then forget it is
not a number).
rgds
Jan I.
On 3 November 2012 17:47, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
RGB ES wrote:
On the help files, you find numbers written like
1.79769313486232 x 10E308
This is wrong: it should be either
1.79769313486232 x 10^308
or
1.79769313486232E308
what do you think?
Yes, it's wrong and your first proposal is correct and more readable
than
the second one. Then I wonder how many times we have these kind of
numbers
in our documentation... and probably when they do appear we are more
interested in their order of magnitude than in their actual value.
Regards,
Andrea.
