Commodore Plus 4 - Page 67

SCIENTIFIC
NOTATION
What did your Plus/4 mean by the E-03 part of the above answer?
Your Plus-4 displays decimal numbers in the range -999.999.99910
999.999,999 in standard numerals. Numbers beyond this range (with
more than nine digits) are automatically displayed in scientific notation
You can enter numbers in yourself in this form and your Plus/4 will read
them with no trouble (certainly less trouble than you had converting
them}. Scientific notation is often useful, since this special notation lets
your Plus/4 display large numbers in fewer digits.
Here is how the number 198.505.478 would be written in scientific
notation
Only ONE digit is
shown to the left of
the decimal point
1 98505478E
This number is the
number of digit
places the decimal
point is moved
For a number less than one with several decimal places, the second
number would be a - instead of a +, indicating that the decimal point
is moved to the right.
For example
0003359 - 3.359E - 4
Other examples
20 - 2E + 1
105000 = 1.05E - 5
0666 - 6 66E - 2
the decimal point is moved 1 digit left
the decimal point is moved 5 digits left
the decimal point is moved 2 digits right