Re: A92: Engineering notation

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Subject: Re: A92: Engineering notation
From: Niklas Brunlid <e96nbr@efd.lth.se>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 23:01:47 +0200
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At 14:05 1997-09-28 -0400, you wrote:
>ok I got it to change to eng. format {slap to the head}...  but i am writing
>a program that i would like the answer to come out with the proper metric
>prefix IE: 1,000=1.x10e3 = 1k     or    1,000,000 = 1.x10e6  = 1M    I would
>like the basic program to output in k or M or m...   is there a way to tell
>the calc that e3 = K and output in that format...

You could make a function do this. The only problem would be that it can't
determine what the units are, so you would get fx a temparature of 1k
instead of 1000 Kelvin...

Niklas Brunlid - http://www.efd.lth.se/~e96nbr
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One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry.
        -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)

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