I see it. If you try to always start with a digit, then always follow with a decimal place, then the rest implies measurement precision, and the mantissa lets you ensure a dot after the first digit <3
The most amusing exceptional case I could think of: “0.1e1” :-D
This would be like “I was trying to count penguins by eyeball in the distance against the glare of snow and maybe it was a big one, or two huddled together, or maybe it was just a weirdly shaped rock… it could have been a count of 0 or 1 or 2.”
FWIW, I read 700e6 the same as 700M or 7e8. If someone was trying to communicate significant figures I’d expect 7.00e8.
I see it. If you try to always start with a digit, then always follow with a decimal place, then the rest implies measurement precision, and the mantissa lets you ensure a dot after the first digit <3
The most amusing exceptional case I could think of: “0.1e1” :-D
This would be like “I was trying to count penguins by eyeball in the distance against the glare of snow and maybe it was a big one, or two huddled together, or maybe it was just a weirdly shaped rock… it could have been a count of 0 or 1 or 2.”