Re: A92: Engineering notation

To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A92: Engineering notation
From: Brandon May <may@tconl.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 17:38:02 -0500
In-Reply-To: <970928173726_-430031918@emout04.mail.aol.com>
Reply-To: assembly-92@lists.ticalc.org

>what i want it to do is recognize electronic notation as in kohms or
>megohms...
>can i get it to see a e3 as k and e6 as M and so on... what i am writing is a
>basic program that will do ohms law and have it output in eng notation with
>the correct metric prefix..
>
>would i just tell the program that e3 is k and have it disp like that using
>the if then else statements???
>
>thanks in advance :-)

I've got an idea:

1. input the number
2. convert it to a string
3. check for # of characters
4. store last 2 characters in a variable
5. if-then statements for that variable

I don't know if it will work, but it may give you a place to start.

 ------------------------------- ------------------------------------
|       - Brandon May -         |                                    |
|                               |                                    |
|     mailto:may@tconl.com      |               /'^'\                |
|                               |              ( o o )               |
 ------------------------------- --------oOOO----(_)----OOOo---------

References:

Re: A92: Engineering notation

From: MacroByter@aol.com