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Re: "Proper" scientific notation

At 08:03 PM 3/10/98 EST, you wrote:
I'll jump on the bandwagon and put in my two cents worth as well. I,
too, insist that my high school students write their answers as 2.3 x
10^3 and will not accept notation such as 2.3 E3.

Would you acccept the engineering notation 2.3^\3 ie the \3 is a superscript
and the \ means "times ten to the"?


Jim Green
JMGreen@sisna.com