scientific notation
Type
glossary
Description
A way of formatting numbers where the number is represented as a value between one and ten, multiplied by the appropriate power of ten.
note
Whenever a string takes the form xEy in LiveCode, where x is a number and y is an integer, it is interpreted as a number in scientific notation. This means that such a string is evaluated as x*10^y. For example:
put 1e2 is 100 -- returns true