On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 08:25:46 +0100 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote: > > You missed the big one. What the hell is 1.0e6? Shouldn't that be > > 1.0x10^6? > > Uh, 1.0e6 is quite a usual variant of scientific notation for 1.0 * > 10^6. The "e" stands for "exponent". Thanks, (Paul too) For some reason when I saw that "e" I couldn't think of anything but "2.71828..." Kevin