Charles Mills wrote: >Or phrasing the question differently:
Thanks for clarifying your need. You've got all of us in a corner in a rondavel! (round room) ;-D >consider the integer 45600000. It may be expressed as >4.56 x 10**7 or 4.56E7 in scientific notation; or as >45.6 x 10**6 in engineering notation; or as >45.6M in _______ notation; or as >45600000 in _________ notation. >Can anyone fill in those blanks? What you can do is, say somewhere in your output what the scale of those numbers are 1000, 10 000 or whatever. 45.6 Million of whatever unit 45 600 000 units of whatever (liter/meter/kilogram/dollar, etc) Or simply 45.6 A and 45 600 000 B where you say somewhere in a footnote that A is million and B is unit x. On tables, graphs etc, there are sometimes a footnote showing in what units are these numbers. Say Year 2001 gave 10 and Year 2010 gave 100. (where numbers are shown in thousands/millions/etc) Science and mathematics have a format in that 9.999 times 10 to the power of y. There is always one digit to the left of the point. If you must use powers of ten (or other scale), you can write something like 10^2 or 10^6. It all depends on what you are showing and whether your readers of your software ca understand. Good luck! Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
