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Re: Scientific notation

  • Subject: Re: Scientific notation
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 13:56:20 +0100
Jeffrey Mattox wrote:

You do good work, but all that AS for such a simple task makes me
cringe. How about this instead:

set theNumber to 3.0E-4
do shell script "perl -e 'print " & theNumber & "'"
--> "0.0003"

set theNumber to 3.0E-8
do shell script "perl -e 'print " & theNumber & "'"
--> "3.0E-8"
(nuff said)
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