"[n] = 10ⁿ I'm promoting this as a convention. I encourage you all to join me. It's fast, it's fun and it's free."
What the heck do you mean by this?
The shortening scientific notation makes perfect sense, but someone is going to have to explain to me how the absolute value of seven is equal to ten million. Lol.
birchardvilleobservatory
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Zardos is trying to simplify the writing of numbers using scientific notation
"2.98 x 10^8 m/s" would be "2.98[8] m/s"
Satan Claws
I don't oppose conventions as long as they're reasonably clear, as is this case. But personally I prefer using "En" for representing "10^n" for two reasons: it's already familiar to a lot of people (especially in engineering an CS, which understand for example 6.58E-16) and it uses one less character than Zardos' convention, although having the problem of possibly not being so visually "clean": compare the readability of "6.58E-16" to "1.05[-16]" and pick which one you prefer (as long as everyone understand what it means).
But then again, I have the awful habit of sometimes writing (too) long answers, so on a textbox with a character limit every character counts...
Faesson
I liked the old Fortran notation better, 10ⁿ = 10**n
duke_of_urls
It's pretty cool, but Nyx makes a good point, it looks like the absolute value symbol.