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. Now I do not know where it is used, 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. >
