Exponential Cartoon

[Deleted member 4993]

GAK, I think you don't even know what the problem is supposed to look like!

"6.09e1012" is wrong notation, regardless.


Are you able to go back and check to see what the problem looks like?
I wondered whether or not there was a redundancy with a 10 as in the "e10"
supposed to be standing in for "times 10 raised to the."
Could it be the following interpretation instead?


\(\displaystyle \dfrac{(6.09 \ \times \ 10^{12})^2}{(1,256.6)^2}\)



Another reason is that the first exponent interpretation for the 10 is so relatively large compared to the second
number, 1256.6, as compared to the guess of my interpretation of the exponent of the 10 of the first number.

Why?

 

[lookagain]

Why?

I deleted the post that was in. It's not wrong notation.

I was used to the upper case.

 

[lookagain]

"Free Math Help Scientific Notation" by Pick_a_username on 09-21-2014

What, again!?

I just found out from freemathhelp.com that 6.09e1012 is legit notation. All the while I thought it had to be a capital "E." I stated to some users the other way was wrong. Why don't you make a comic strip about it and post it in the same thread to lighten the situation?

Okay, I see your angle. Hey, but just between you and me, if anyone asks, the comic strip will be all YOUR idea.

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[lookagain]

What's that lookagain?

I had an earlier post (now deleted) where I claimed that "6.09e1012" is wrong notation.


So I created that comic strip to poke fun at myself.

 

[HallsofIvy]

It is "legit" notation if "6.09e1012" (or, better, "6.09E1012") was intended to mean \(\displaystyle 6.09\times 10^{1012}\).

Look Again assumed they had intended to write \(\displaystyle 6.09\times 10^{12}\) and mixed notations.

 

[Ishuda]

I had an earlier post (now deleted) where I claimed that "6.09e1012" is wrong notation.


So I created that comic strip to poke fun at myself.

Hey, what do you charge for doing that? I might have need of your services if all of my posts are considered:smile:.