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Hi Bart,
Take the part that appears before the e, in this case 8.7638
Now look at the part after the e. They are powers of ten. So in this case e+01 is 10 to the power of 1 which is 10.
Now multiply that first number by that 10.
So 8.7638e+01 is 8.7638 times 10 or 87.638
Background.
The e stands for exponent or exponential.
It originated as a way to enter "floating point numbers", that is numbers that have a decimal point, in early programming languages
such as FORTRAN. The keyboards didn't have any easy way to enter a superscript so this notation made it possible to specify these types of
numbers in the program. It persists today in most programming languagess.
Last edited by gary; 05-12-2021 at 02:09 PM.
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