Number in scientific (E) notation
ID scientific_notation
Pattern of numericNot PIIDraft
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Number written as a mantissa and a power of ten after the letter E, as in 6.022e23. Programming languages, spreadsheets and CSV exports write very large and very small numbers this way. A spreadsheet often turns a long identifier into this form, which loses digits.
- Pattern of
- Numeric value
numeric - Categories
- All measurable values (percentage, amount and e.t.c), Common
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 65/100 · missing: source link, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^[+-]?\d+(?:\.\d+)?[eE][+-]?\d+$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 6.022e23 | Mantissa 6.022 and exponent 23 |
| 1E-9 | One billionth |
| 7.729E+9 | Form that spreadsheets give to a long number |
| 6.022x10^23 invalid | Written with a multiplication sign |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Число в научной (экспоненциальной) записи |
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/scientific_notation - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/values/scientific_notation.yamlon GitHub