[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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