Message: 3
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:53:05 -0700
From: Randall Lee Reetz <[email protected]>
Subject: convert to scientific notation
To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]>
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I can't remember how to use power function "^" to find the nth root
of a number. To find the 2ndth root of a number we can use the "sqrt
()" function. But to find the nth root????
For instance, lets say I want to convert a number to scientific
notation (the 10th root of that number)... I used to know how to use
the power function to do this. Anyone remember how to do it?
I tried to get the 10th root (scientific notation) of 100 (which
should = 2) by: 100^(1/10) ... but that isn't it.
Any ideas? I feel brain dead.
Randall
Randall,
Here is the function I have always used--see Turtle Graphics
function sci tNum,sigFigures
if tNum < 0 then
put "-" into sign
else put empty into sign
put abs(tNum) into tNum
if sigFigures is empty then put 3 into sigFigures --Default
significant figures.
put 0 into count
if tNum >= 1 then
repeat until tNum < 10
divide tNum by 10
add 1 to count
end repeat
put round((10^(sigFigures-1))*tNum)/10^(sigFigures-1) into tNum
return sign & (char 1 to sigFigures + 1 of tNum) &"*10^" & count
end if
if tNum < 1 then
repeat until tNum >= 1
multiply tNum by 10
add 1 to count
end repeat
end if
return sign & (char 1 to sigFigures + 1 of tNum) & "*10^-" & count
end sci
For example:
put sci(23346.445443,4)
gives 2.335*10^4
Brute force, but functional.
Jim Hurley
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