http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/1977coefficients2.txt

If you click on the word "Coefficients" at the top of this page, there is a 
table with this sort of notation. 

I was going to pull it into a spreadsheet and I thought it might be easier to 
separate out the exponent rather than leave it there to be parsed out.  That 
way when I exported it again, I could comma delimit it rather than "D" 
delimit it. 

I was wondering why it was done that way. Greg probably has the answer.

On Saturday 22 January 2005 11:34 pm, Greg Kreis wrote:
> I am not sure of what you are asking.  Are you referring to this?
>
>  >w .24e-2
>
> .0024
>
> Nancy E. Anthracite wrote:
> >Is it fairly typical to provide numbers in a format with a D followed by a
> >power of 10, i.e. 0.2400000D-02 is really .00240000, for entry into
> >databases to be parsed and used by programs?  If it is, is the D-02
> > portion usually provided in the same piece of data or "cell" or whatever
> > you want to call it, or in a different, perhaps adjoining, cell?

-- 
Nancy Anthracite


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