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Bug 324174 - Formating cells should allow choosing 'engineering notation'
Formating cells should allow choosing 'engineering notation'
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 129706
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: General
git master
Other All
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-12-15 13:31 UTC by Henning P
Modified: 2005-12-15 14:25 UTC
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Description Henning P 2005-12-15 13:31:39 UTC 
Version details: 1.5.90 Debian
Distribution/Version: Knoppix installed to harddisk (Debian)

I suggest that Gnumeric allow cell formatting to be in 'engineering notation'.
Explanation follows:

Presenting numbers in engineering notation is commonly used by engineers (yes),
as they like units like mili, micro, kilo, mega and so on, and numbers are
generally easier to compare if they have the same 'unit'; for example 13E-3 and
1.3E-3 instead of 1.3E-2 and 1.3E-3.

Engineering notation is like 'scientific notation', execept only powers N*3 are
used, e.g.

103E-03, 22E6, 12E-12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_notation
Comment 1 Morten Welinder 2005-12-15 14:25:02 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129706 ***