Howie Hamlin wrote:

> You can do something like:
> 
> <cfset num=260000000>
> <cfoutput>#numberformat(num /
> 10^(len(num)-1),"9.9")#e#evaluate(len(num)-1)#</cfoutput>
> 
> Just bear in mind that this works for numbers >=1

Because of the Len() it only works for numbers that consist 
only of digits (no decimal points, for example).  You could 
change Len(Num)-1 to Int(Log10(Num)) (in both places) to make 
it work for more numbers.

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