question: scientific vs engineering notation

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Subject: question: scientific vs engineering notation
From: "Douglas S. Oliver" <dsoliver@EARTHLINK.NET>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:09:06 -0800
Reply-To: "Douglas S. Oliver" <dsoliver@EARTHLINK.NET>

Hi all, I am neither a mathematician nor an engineer.  I have
what I think is a simple question:  I know how scientific
notation works (EE on the calc) and how engineering notation
works, but I don't know why someone would choose one over the
other.  Until I got my TI35 a few years ago (I now have a TI86),
I had never heard of engineering notation.  What is the
motivation for using one notation over the other? --D


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Douglas S. Oliver
Department of Anthropology
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
e-mail: douglaso@citrus.ucr.edu
    or: dsoliver@earthlink.net

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