what i want it to do is recognize electronic notation as in kohms or megohms... can i get it to see a e3 as k and e6 as M and so on... what i am writing is a basic program that will do ohms law and have it output in eng notation with the correct metric prefix.. would i just tell the program that e3 is k and have it disp like that using the if then else statements??? thanks in advance :-)