Re: question: scientific vs engineering notation

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Subject: Re: question: scientific vs engineering notation
From: The Pletchers <bpspcp-travelin@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:55:13 -0500
Reply-To: The Pletchers <bpspcp-travelin@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>

Look in yovr manval on page 34.

At 12:09 PM 3/6/98 -0800, Douglas S. Oliver wrote:
>Hi all, I am neither a mathematician nor an engineer.  I have
>what I think is a simple question:  I know how scientific
>notation works (EE on the calc) and how engineering notation
>works, but I don't know why someone would choose one over the
>other.  Until I got my TI35 a few years ago (I now have a TI86),
>I had never heard of engineering notation.  What is the
>motivation for using one notation over the other? --D
>
>
>--
>
>Douglas S. Oliver
>Department of Anthropology
>University of California
>Riverside, CA 92521
>e-mail: douglaso@citrus.ucr.edu
>    or: dsoliver@earthlink.net
>
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