Re: scientific mode for powers
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- Subject: [mg43963] Re: scientific mode for powers
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 04:15:58 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi, it is very clever to use Mathematica to convert a polynomial and than to use GnuPlot instead of Mathematicas Plot[] command. But what may test = -8.670077820*10^-06; CForm[test] NumberForm[test, NumberFormat -> (ToString[#1] <> "**" <> ToString[#3] &)] output ?? Regards Jens Bernhard Hidding wrote: > > Hello, > I am new to mathematica. I use it to convert 7th order polynomials to 5th > order polynomials. I plot them with gnuplot afterwards. > Doing so, it is quite time-consuming to change the syntax. As far as I got > it, mathematica just does not understand if numbers are given in scientific > mode you know from Fortran or C. So, for each and every number, I have to > change e.g. > > -8.670077820E-06 into -8.670077820*10^-06 and back again. > > (Additionally, gnuplot doesn't understand 10^-06 but needs 10**-06) > > Does anyone know how to convert from scientific mode to "10^xx"-notation > automatically? > > Thanks in advance, > Bernhard Hidding