orozer0 (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} orozer0) wrote,@ 2008-10-16 12:22:00 |
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Because everyone else is doing it...
Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"For example, to change 3.94e4 to a numeral without an e, you move the decimal point 4 places to the right to obtain 34900.0 which is another way of writing the same number. If the number after the e is negative, you move the decimal point the indicated number of spaces to the left, inserting extra zeros if need be. So, 3.49e-2 is the same as 0.0349."
Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"For example, to change 3.94e4 to a numeral without an e, you move the decimal point 4 places to the right to obtain 34900.0 which is another way of writing the same number. If the number after the e is negative, you move the decimal point the indicated number of spaces to the left, inserting extra zeros if need be. So, 3.49e-2 is the same as 0.0349."
