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Re: Export Numbers

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg7382] Re: [mg7317] Export Numbers
• From: David Withoff <withoff>
• Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 01:19:24 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

> Dear Mathgroup,
> can someone let me know how to flatten exponents in numbers when
> exporting them to an ASCII file?
> For example: I want 9.2 * 10^-6 to be
>
> 0.0000092 in my file
>
> instead of
>                                            -6
> 9.2 10
>
> the way that it looks like at the moment.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Peter

Here is one possibility:

In[1]:= NumberForm[9.2 * 10^-6, ExponentFunction -> (Null &)]

Out[1]//NumberForm= 0.0000092

This is one way to display numbers without using exponents.  If this
isn't what you had in mind, I recommend looking at functions like
NumberForm, ScientificForm, etc., and the options to those functions.

Dave Withoff
Wolfram Research