Hi ROBERT,
On 21 Jan 98, 14:57, you wrote to All
 RD> I'm new to C++ and find that there are parts in the program below
 RD> which I don't understand. If you have a look at lines nine and
...
 RD> cout << 1.e3        << endl; //  1000
 RD> cout << 1.e-3       << endl; //  0.001
 RD> Does 1.e3 mean one multiplied by a thousand, and
 RD> 1.e-3 mean one multiplied by minus a thousand?
This has nearly nothing to do with programming ;-) That 1.e3 notation just
means 1.000 times ten to the third power. The 'e' is math shorthand for 
'exponent'.
Just consider a X.XXX eY number as X.XXX000... with the decimal point to be 
shifted Y places to the right -- in this way you can understand numbers with 
negative exponents too: the decimal is just shifted in the other direction.
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