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Re: exponential format

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• Subject: [mg114013] Re: exponential format
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:24:52 -0500 (EST)

ScientificForm does _not_ provide the "e" format that the OP requested. 
Getting the "e" format is not so straightforward in this particular case.

On 11/19/2010 5:10 AM, Bob Hanlon wrote:
> expr = 6.25/10.^Range[0, 5]
>
> ScientificForm /@ expr
>
>
> Bob Hanlon
>
> ---- Magdalena Moczydlowska<magdamoczydlowska at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> =============
> Hi,
>
> Maybe my question is silly but I can not find any answer in the net ?
> How to change in Mathematica a normal number format to exponential
> notation. I mean for example 0.25->6.25e-02.
>
> Thank you for any suggestion,
> Magdalena
>
>

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