[LMB] Alternate easy methods to tag quotes

Peter H. Granzeau pgranzeau at cox.net
Mon Mar 10 14:16:39 GMT 2008


At 02:24 PM 3/9/2008, Bill Johnson wrote:

>Question:
>How did you derive the structured text display for engineering
>notation (ie 10^6 = 10000000.00) but get '<' less than and '>'
>greater than backwards?

I got that wrong, too, of course.  The caret is used for "to the power of", so 3^3 is 27, not 300.   I forget how engineering notation was specified.

And "A > B" can mean either "A is greater than B" or "B is less than A".  I'm still not sure which is correct. 



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