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ant6n
on Dec 19, 2024
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Satellite powered estimation of global solar poten...
You mean 1.07E16
vermilingua
on Dec 19, 2024
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It's pretty common in some contexts to only use Es for powers of 1000, so 100,000,000 is 100e6 rather than 1e8.
SAI_Peregrinus
on Dec 20, 2024
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That's commonly called engineering notation.
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